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Some weeks after Monroe Scherer arrived in Korea, some of the older members went back to the United States. Scherer...

Dale Smith was aboard the USS Proteus (AS-19) 99 percent of the time. They had movies and a huge mess hall. If no...

Louis Andriano does not remember celebrating the war ending. They were always the last to know and it made no...

Curtis Winfred Wise [Annotator's Note: with Company I, 3rd Battalion, 321st Infantry Regiment, 81st Infantry Division]...

Adolph Wilson and his outfit sailed back to Hawaii after Iwo Jima. They were being trained to assault Sasebo, Japan as...

James "Jim" Tubach was sent to a little town outside of Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan] called Fukiya [Annotator...

William Burkett left the States in August 1945. He was in an eight-ship convoy. They left from San Francisco [Annotator...

After spending months trying to kill Japanese, Oran Harris now had to live with them. He felt sorry for the civilians,...

While in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], Matthew Cornelia boarded an APA [Annotator's Note...

Leo Denault was always singing in the shower. He loved music. They put on a show. They built a stage with a roof on it...

David Hanning retired after 32 years in the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel. [Annotator's Note: The interviewer pauses the...

For occupation duty in Japan, Albert "Al" Machaud was transferred to Hokkaido, in northern part of the county, where he...

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