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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...

Ervin Markwald [Annotator’s Note: serving with Headquarters Company, 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division on...

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

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...

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...

Leslie B. Mason, Junior did morning reports and accounts of the prisoners [Annotator's Note: at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo...

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...

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

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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