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Harry Watson went to Newport, Rhode Island [Annotator's Note: for Navy boot camp training], and couldn't understand why...

When Japan surrendered, John Cassidy was in the Pacific off Wake Island. He thought the atomic bomb was kind of awesome...

Everything Kenneth T. Snyder, Sr. learned as an officer in the Marine Corps prepared him for the rest of his life. [...

Walter Bowsher was captured and then sent to China in February. [Annotator’s Note: Bowsher was a member of the 1st...

Lionel Lopez took a small ship out of Panama. They were headed north to San Francisco [Annotator’s Note: San Francisco...

While teaching in Wausau, Wisconsin, F. Lincoln Grahlfs read about the National Association of Atomic Veterans and...

Jack Skaggs was transferred from the Kiangwan POW [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] camp to Osaka, Japan in August...

Kenneth E. Stevens [Annotator's Note: with Company E, 1st Battalion, 21st Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division] did not...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. was assigned to Wake Island as a member of the Marine Corps' 1st Defense Battalion. He had...

Garland Virgil Longhoffer returned home on 1 September 1946, after one year in Japan. He learned some of the Japanese...

After Tarawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Tarawa, 20 to 23 November 1943 at Tarawa Atoll, Gilbert Islands], Henry James...

William O’Brien was born in Dubuque, Iowa in June 1918. His real father passed away when he was four months old. His...

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