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[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] George N. Boutwell [Annotator’s...

On VJ-Day [Annotator's Note: Victory Over Japan Day, 15 August 1945], Earl Wergin [Annotator's Note: with the USS...

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

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

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...

[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...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. sailed to many ports in the Japanese islands after the war. Following three months there,...

Edward Bale witnessed attacks by Japanese troops who were inebriated. He learned to like the Japanese after the war...

Charles “Chuck” Wisher reached the Philippines [Annotator’s Note: as a crewman on a Boeing B-29 Superfortress very...

When Frank Pryor left Hawaii, he was sent to Japan instead of the mainland [Annotator's Note: the United States...

Looking back, Dale Peterson feels honored that he participated in the 2 September 1945 surrender of the Japanese. At...

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