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Erwin Johnson was a prisoner of war being held in Mukden, Manchuria when he was told the war was over on 17 August 1945...

Richard Lafleur [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty with 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division] got acquainted...

William Winter was at Fort McClellan for four months, after which they were assigned to Army units. In October 1944, he...

Nobuo Hayashi remembers when the Americans arrived in their jeeps playing jazz music. He did not trust them at first...

[Annotator's Note: The video cuts in and out and is hard to hear at times. Questions and answers are often...

William Burkett thinks the war crimes trials [Annotator’s Note: Tokyo War Crimes Trials] were the most memorable. The...

William Pierce had good duty for the six or seven months that he was in China [Annotator's Note: serving occupation...

When the 32nd Division [Annotator's Note: 32nd Infantry Division] was called back, Emmanuel Damonte was transferred to...

Nick Cristiano feels that his Japanese prison guards did not know the war was coming to an end. They were brainwashed....

Charles “Chuck” Franzke’s orders were changed after the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: announced 15 August...

Looking back, Dale Peterson feels honored that he participated in the 2 September 1945 surrender of the Japanese. At...

Walter J. Latiolais, Sr. landed in Yokohama, Japan [Annotator's Note: following the end of the war in September 1945]....

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