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

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

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

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

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

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

Ray Dennis Irby stayed overseas from 1943 until December 1945. He was in Tokyo [Annotator's Note: Tokyo, Japan] when...

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

Shortly after Frederick Ellis reached Japan and the point system was in place for sending them home. The points got...

Frederick Haack [Annotator's Note: a pilot with the 68th Troop Carrier Squadron, 433rd Troop Carrier Group, 5th Air...

Kenneth Weiland was assigned to the 866th Aviation Engineer Battalion attached to the 8th Army. He was in A Company....

Leslie B. Mason, Junior was on MP [Annotator's Note: military police] duty for a while and then became a jailer [...

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