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

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

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

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

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

Leo Denault remembers there was a little town next to them with a geisha district [Annotator’s Note: geisha district,...

Henry Quinton Pike was assigned to a gun on the USS Hornet (CV-8) to transport civilians to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

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

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

Alfred Dearman played baseball and football. They had two good teams. They played a lot of other Army units around...

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

Whayland Harvel Greene [Annotator's Note: assigned to the 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division] was assigned...

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