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Samuel Hadjinian was sent Japan with the 1896th Engineer Aviation Battalion during occupation to build airfields and...

Joseph Mittelsdorf enjoyed swimming and diving for lobsters at night in Hawaii [Annotator's Note: as part of the 5th...

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

For occupation duty in Japan, Albert "Al" Machaud was transferred to Hokkaido, in northern part of the county, where he...

Alton Barnes and the 158th Regimental Combat Team, 158th RCT, left the Philippines in September [Annotator's Note:...

James Richard O'Rorke was assigned to a Japanese baron and his beautiful home which was safe between Nagasaki [...

When the war ended, William Goldsborough didn't have enough points [Annotator's Note: a point system was devised based...

William Ebersole was on Iwo Jima when the first atomic bomb was dropped on Japan [Annotator's Note: the first atomic...

Dell Lauderdale was at Sugamo Prison where there were six cell blocks separated by an iron gate. Behind the gate was "...

Walter Amoss reached the Imperial Hotel [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] where the headquarters for MacArthur [...

[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was on occupation duty in Kagoshima, Japan after the war ended.] The invasion [...

Clyde Nordstrom did a lot of sightseeing in Japan. He visited a Shinto temple and just roamed around. He thought the...

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