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

Paul Bannai interrogated Japanese soldiers and read Japanese documents during the war. When the war ended, Bannai was...

In August 1945, after completing an advanced infantry training course at Fort Rucker, Alabama, Marvin Martin was sent...

Normand F. Gallichant was preparing to hit the beaches of Japan just before the war ended. Defenses in Japan would have...

Philip Dunford feels the Japanese were very capable fighters, but were also very cruel. What they did to an American...

Willard Ashford [Annotator’s Note: assigned to the 134th Naval Construction Battalion in Guam] was preparing to invade...

Nagasaki [Annotator's Note: Nagasaki, Japan] was devastated [Annotator's Note: by the nuclear weapon dropped on...

Erwin Johnson was a prisoner of war being held in Mukden, Manchuria when he was told the war was over on 17 August 1945...

William Winter was at Fort McClellan for four months, after which they were assigned to Army units. In October 1944, he...

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

Clyde Nordstrom cannot say that his life changed much after the declaration of war [Annotator's Note: on Japan, after...

William Pierce looked at the invasion of Japan as just another battle. His Marine regiment [Annotator's Note: Pierce...

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