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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...

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

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

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

Charles “Chuck” Franzke’s orders were changed after the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: announced 15 August...

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

David Hanning says the goal of the program was to train interpreters to act as a translator between the American...

James N. Rizzo sailed overseas to the Pacific. He did not travel with his whole group [Annotator's Note: 553rd Air...

[Annotator's Note: Monroe Scherer was sent to Korea on occupation duty after Japan surrendered.] The Russians had...

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