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Nick Cristiano has no idea where his Japanese prison guards went when the war ended. A whole new crew came in. The new...

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

It was Walter Bank's first time in the Pacific, and he found it "different." Few Japanese spoke English, and he had to...

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

Everywhere that Frederick Ellis went there was an officer's club. The enlisted men never got that. Every once in a...

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

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...

H. Lloyd Wilkerson was sent back to the Pacific, and served with the Sixth Marine Division on Guam before being loaded...

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

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...

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

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