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Gerald Kynett could run 20 to 25 word a minute using signal. After stopping at Enewetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetok...

Curtis Winfred Wise [Annotator's Note: with Company I, 3rd Battalion, 321st Infantry Regiment, 81st Infantry Division]...

Charles Stix left Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands] after the atomic bombs [Annotator’s Note: Nuclear...

Joseph Linett continued on the same ship when it left Ulithi, and while they were underway, a "now hear this"...

John Kreutzberg was born in July 1927 and grew up in Lake Bluff, Illinois. He lived with his parents and aunt. He...

[Annotator's Note: Horace Trahan served in the Navy on occupation duty outside of Tokyo, Japan.] He stayed aboard ship...

Carey Eleser turned 21 on 5 August 1945 and went into a bar to get a beer. On 6 August the atomic bomb was dropped and...

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...

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

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

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...

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