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After the war ended with Japan [Annotator’s Note: 15 August 1945], Walter Guyote made a few trips to Japan [Annotator’s...

[Annotator's Note: Monroe Scherer was sent to Korea on occupation duty after Japan surrendered.] The Russians had...

They proceeded to Samar to the repair base. The boats had already begun to be renovated because they had been assigned...

Allen Tillery left Tinian in late December 1944 and was sent to Guam. When he got there he was assigned to the Japanese...

The Marines knew they would be getting into a yellow jacket's nest if they had to invade Japan. When the war ended,...

From China, the USS Balduck (ADP-132) took Donald Dean and the rest of the crew back to Okinawa, then to Hawaii,...

Jack Skaggs could tell the end of the war was coming by April 1945 when the 7th Fleet wiped out the shipyard in Osaka....

Dale Peterson's battlestation on the USS San Juan (CL-54) was a five inch 38 caliber gun mount that had a seven man...

William Pierce tells the story of his duty on Guam while he was training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands...

George A. Damiano was ordered to pick up the dead Japanese [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan], but he refused to do...

After Richard Jaccarino was released from the hospital, he was sent to a replacement depot on Saipan, and within a...

The trip overseas for Richard Witaker was difficult because so many of his fellow Marines got seasick on the 31 day...

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