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

Carey Eleser turned 21 on 5 August 1945 and went into a bar to get a beer. On 6 August the atomic bomb was dropped and...

For the invasion of Japan, Richard Nummer and the American troops were issued wool blankets and green fatigues to fight...

When Marvin Martin heard about the atomic bombs [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...

Robert Lewter would swap cigarettes for Japanese services. The Japanese used needles and sewed thread as straight as an...

Clyde Nordstrom went to Fort Snelling [Annotator's Note: in Hennepin County, Minnesota] and said he wanted to enlist....

Richard Witaker felt hatred for the Japanese before the assault of Okinawa. The feelings had begun with the surprise...

Because the war in Europe had begun to die down and the need for additional pilots was decreasing by the time he...

Since Alfred Dearman would be in the cellblock with the prisoners [Annotator's Note: at Sugamo Prison, Tokyo, Japan],...

[Annotator's Note: Howard Warren Stokes served in the 27th Infantry Division. Soon after the war's end, he was sent...

Jack Gutman said that because there were so many, the wounded were taken off Okinawa and brought back to various ships...

Carl C. Bartels, M.D. [Annotator's Note: Doctor of Medicine] was part of a GROPAC Unit [Annotator's Note: GROPAC Units...

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