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Matthew Poye was born in January 1928 in White Valley, Pennsylvania. He had two brothers and four sisters. His family...

Mahlen Arledge and his platoon [Annotator's Note: 3rd Platoon, Company K, 3rd Battalion, 321st Infantry Regiment, 81st...

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...

The Chinese would grab people on the streets and hand them over to the Americans if they were Japanese. George Colburn...

After the war, Leroy Fadem's ship [Annotator's Note: USS LST-871] was in the first task group to enter Nagasaki harbor...

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...

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

Kenneth F. Thomas had returned to the United States to train for the invasion of Japan, then he was put on a ship...

Alfred Dearman says that Sugamo Prison [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] was the largest, most modern prison in Japan...

[Annotator's Note: Dale Smith served in the Navy aboard the submarine tender USS Proteus (AS-19) and was at Kamakura,...

James Marks was on a carrier [Annotator's Note: USS Wasp (CV-18)] that went up through Japan and China with the...

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