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

Kenneth Wieland went straight to Japan. He was assigned to the Aviation Engineer battalion [Annotator’s Note: Company A...

Garland Virgil Longhoffer was at a movie when he was told the Japanese surrendered. His area did not believe the news....

William Pierce looked at the invasion of Japan as just another battle. His Marine regiment [Annotator's Note: Pierce...

After the war ended, Ernest Cowell was sent to Korea [Annotator's Note: with the 20th Infantry Regiment, 6th Infantry...

John Caraway's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bridge (AF-1)] was anchored in the harbor at Okinawa when he heard about the...

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

When Alfred Dearman would come on duty for the morning shift as a jailer, the midnight shift would have had the...

Nick Cristiano feels that his Japanese prison guards did not know the war was coming to an end. They were brainwashed....

[Annotator’s Note: Can hear ringing from interviewee’s hearing aid throughout segment.] In March 1946, George N....

In August 1945, after completing an advanced infantry training course at Fort Rucker, Alabama, Marvin Martin was sent...

After Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945 at Iwo Jima, Japan], Robert Erskine...

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