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

Throughout summer of 1945, the Belleau Wood [Annotator's Note: USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24)] began launching its planes...

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

After the war, Leroy Fadem's ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-871] was in the first task group to enter Nagasaki harbor...

When Alfred Dearman got to Japan, he went to a replacement depot. He waited around there with his friend he had gone to...

Kenneth F. Thomas had returned to the United States to train for the invasion of Japan, then he was put on a ship...

After the conclusion of World War 2, Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard...

Edwin Knight knows that Americans fought for a good purpose during World War 2. The enemy could have won and we would...

Edmond Guidry wanted to kill the Japanese for what they did. When the war ended, the United States still did not trust...

When Masaji Inoshita got to the ceremony [Annotator's Note: a Japanese surrender ceremony in China] he found out that...

Roy H. Matsumoto returned to the United States and decided to stay in the Army. He extended his term of service only to...

Walter Oka said the conditions under which the POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoners of war] were transported were sparse,...

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