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Richard Lafleur was not assigned to a unit after training. He knew he was going to be in the 1st Cavalry Division....

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. sailed to many ports in the Japanese islands after the war. Following three months there,...

Some weeks after Monroe Scherer arrived in Korea, some of the older members went back to the United States. Scherer...

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

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

When he was on shore leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in occupied Japan,...

Leo Denault remembers there was a little town next to them with a geisha district [Annotator’s Note: geisha district,...

Henry Quinton Pike was assigned to a gun on the USS Hornet (CV-8) to transport civilians to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...

2 September 1945 was the official surrender on the USS Missouri. Muller had gone over to watch the Japanese go aboard...

George Linker thought he would return to the United States as soon as the war ended. Instead, he stayed in Japan for...

Alfred Dearman played baseball and football. They had two good teams. They played a lot of other Army units around...

John Bellecci and a friend went to a place called Nikko [Annotator's Note: the site of the Toshogu Shinto Shrine] in...

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