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James Born remarked on his feelings of the Japanese during World War 2. He had a very low opinion of the Japanese...

Leo Denault remembers there was a little town next to them with a geisha district [Annotator’s Note: geisha district,...

Roy Stewart was in Nagasaki [Annotator's Note: Nagasaki, Japan with the 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division]...

Francis Borrell was woken up early one morning and was told about the Japanese surrendering. Everyone was celebrating,...

Peter Gallo was involved in an incident that got him into trouble in Korea. A Japanese officer came in and was chasing...

William Winter was at Fort McClellan for four months, after which they were assigned to Army units. In October 1944, he...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Hayes was assigned to the USS Tortuga (LSD-26) as an electrician in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.]...

When Edward Chinnis reported aboard the ship [Annotator's Note: USS Dorchester (APB-46)], there was a third class...

Richard Lafleur could smell Japan as they got close. Before long they could see the coastline. He envisioned what the...

Walter J. Latiolais, Sr. landed in Yokohama, Japan [Annotator's Note: following the end of the war in September 1945]....

Clyde Nordstrom did a lot of sightseeing in Japan. He visited a Shinto temple and just roamed around. He thought the...

William Burkett thinks the war crimes trials [Annotator’s Note: Tokyo War Crimes Trials] were the most memorable. The...

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