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

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...

After World War 2 ended, William H. Greason was sent to Japan for occupation duty. The Japanese people treated him and...

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...

Aristide "A.D." Durio and his unit [Annotator's Note: 43rd Infantry Division] was loading up to invade Japan. His...

Dale Smith was assigned to the USS Proteus (AS-19), a submarine repair and supply ship. It was big and had about 800...

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...

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

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