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[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] In March 1946, George N....

David R. Saunders recalled when they announced that the war was over. Everyone was hooping and hollering. When he...

The cook [Annotator's Note: on the USS LCI(L)-1012] got sick, and one was needed. Harold Ronson put in for it as he had...

Samuel Hadjinian was sent Japan with the 1896th Engineer Aviation Battalion during occupation to build airfields and...

[Annotator's Note: Monroe Scherer was sent to Okinawa, Japan in July 1945.] There was a sign posted saying that they...

At Camp Crowder [Annotator's Note: in Neosho, Missouri], Lester Caplan was originally trained as a radio repairman, but...

Nobuo Hayashi remembers when the Americans arrived in their jeeps playing jazz music. He did not trust them at first...

Edward Bale began training for the invasion of Japan after the end of the combat on Okinawa. He knew what to expect of...

Paul Franklin went to work for an oil company after he graduated high school. While at the water house, Franklin...

Walter Amoss reached the Imperial Hotel [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] where the headquarters for MacArthur [...

It was Walter Bank's first time in the Pacific, and he found it "different." Few Japanese spoke English, and he had to...

Earl Dean Browning had one day where the 25th Division [Annotator's Note: 25th Infantry Division] had a parade in Kyoto...

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