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Looking back, Dale Peterson feels honored that he participated in the 2 September 1945 surrender of the Japanese. At...

Giles Bacon visited the military cemetery at Honolulu years after the war. It is a beautiful memorial. One of the men...

Claude Shannahan was named for three of his dad's brothers who had died of pneumonia in Canada. Shannahan was born in...

James Buckley was born in March 1923 in Sharon, Connecticut. He attended school in his house until high school. He went...

Showers was born on a farm in Iowa. As a student, he remembers the Armed Forces recruiting students. The first station...

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

[Annotator's Note: Everett Hyland served in the Navy as a radio operator on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) and was aboard...

Allen Horton was born in 1921 in Middletown, Connecticut, a congregational minister's son. His father's profession...

Oscar Culp was based at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii when the war with Japan ended. He remembers the day [Annotator's Note:...

Joseph L. Harrison was in Yokosuka [Annotator's Note: Yokosuka, Japan] in November [Annotator's Note: November 1945]....

From North Island, Carl Rieman was sent to Long Beach, California for more training until his orders came in. Then he...

Sterling Cale returned from the various Pacific islands where he was stationed to Honolulu and the hospital at Fort...

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