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When Kenneth Wieland arrived in Japan, he saw a bunch of American prisoners of war who were nothing but skin and bones...

Mahlen Arledge entered Japan on a landing craft after the end of the Pacific war. Though told that the troops did not...

Basic training was not too bad for Leslie B. Mason, Junior. His dad was an athletic director, so he was used to doing...

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

Phineas Stevens was in every D-Day [Annotator's Note: D-Day denotes the day on which an important operation begins]...

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

Daniel J. Lawler went into Peking, China [Annotator's Note: modern day Beijing, China] after Okinawa [Annotator's Note...

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

When the war ended, Wallace McKay was sent to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], where he worked in a beach...

Ervin Markwald [Annotator’s Note: drafted into the Army at age 18] did 17 weeks of basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas...

[Annotator's Note: Dale Smith served in the Navy aboard the submarine tender USS Proteus (AS-19) and was at Kamakura,...

Louis J. Armentaro did not participate in the Korean War [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 25 June 1950 to 27 July 1953],...

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