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Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. sailed to many ports in the Japanese islands after the war. Following three months there,...

Arthur Jackson was awarded the Medal of Honor on 5 October 1945 during the Nimitz Day celebration in Washington D.C....

William Burkett left the States in August 1945. He was in an eight-ship convoy. They left from San Francisco [Annotator...

Under the influence of his sister who was a nurse, Walter Oka was thinking of studying to become a laboratory...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Hayes was assigned to the USS Tortuga (LSD-26) as an electrician in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.]...

When Dale LeBlanc heard the news that the battle [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa] was over he was relieved. One...

Leo Denault was always singing in the shower. He loved music. They put on a show. They built a stage with a roof on it...

Once he completed his training, Matthew Poye was assigned to the Eigth Army as part of the occupation force in Japan....

Claude Bufford Shaw didn't come immediately back to the United States when the war ended as he was making a career of...

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

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

Alfred Dearman says that Sugamo Prison [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] was the largest, most modern prison in Japan...

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