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[Annotator's Note: Throughout the segment, a chirp sound can be heard.] Albert "Al" Machaud is not sure of the unit he...

While in India, Grant Jiro Hirabayashi worked as a translator for the British Air Force after being in Burma [Annotator...

James Richard O'Rorke was a prisoner of war in a work camp in Yodogawa [Annotator's Note: Yodogawa-ku in Osaka, Japan]...

Raymond Mabarac first landed at Kumaki Air Force Base in Japan, where he lived in a hangar, and then in tents where he...

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

Walter Amoss reached the Imperial Hotel [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] where the headquarters for MacArthur [...

James Shoemaker went into the Naval ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps] at the University of...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was on occupation duty in Kagoshima, Japan after the war ended.] The invasion [...

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

The closest call Thomas Long recalled was the time he was dropping dynamite to repel enemy swimmers whose mission was...

Normand F. Gallichant was preparing to hit the beaches of Japan just before the war ended. Defenses in Japan would have...

Robert Templet wanted to attend college after his service, but he married and had children and his plans changed. He...

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