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Robert Oplinger remembers receiving the first Japanese sword of surrender on the home islands as being his most...

Merlin Smith left Oakland on a shakedown cruise on his new ship [Annotator's Note: USS Goshen (APA-108)]. Afterward,...

Alfred Rodrigues was born on the island of Kauai in Hawaii in October 1922. His mother died early in his life and his...

John Francis Angier was born in June 1923 in Burlington, Vermont. He feels fortunate he was brought up on a dairy farm...

George Morgan had the unique experience of entering Tokyo Bay prior to the Japanese surrender. His ship was anchored...

Childers got ten days leave and went to visit family down in Los Angeles, California.When they returned to Pearl Harbor...

Walter Broll and the Grace Abbott left Bari, Italy and headed for the ocean. Broll and the deck crew secured the...

Herbert Weatherwax [Annotator's Note: Mr. Weatherwax's name is actually Clarence Herbert Weatherwax] was born in...

Gary Tate was born in December 1924 and graduated from high school at 16 years old before the Japanese bombed Pearl...

Raymond Loidolt was born in 1924 on a farm east of Pierz, Minnesota. The farm kept the six of them busy. He went to...

Everett Hyland was born in Stamford, Connecticut in March 1923. His father died when he was one year old. He had one...

Oscar Higgenbotham was born in January 1924 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His father, a mechanical engineer, found...

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