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

[Annotators Note: The interview begins with John Gibbons and the interviewer discussing what got the interviewer...

Once the United States entered World War 2, Adelaide Benjamin followed the progress of the war in a number of ways but...

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

Standifer was born on April 24th, 1925 in Gulfport, Mississippi. He was walking down the street in Clinton, Mississippi...

Henry A. Tacket was aboard the USS Heermann (DD-532) when the invasion of the Philippines started. The initial landings...

Benjamin Carson was born in February 1923 on a farm in Ottawa Township, Minnesota. Shortly afterward, his family moved...

John Kerner heard of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor while he was walking down the street and overheard it. He and...

Davis Gordon Mayes witnessed sailors being blown off their ships and falling into the water [Annotator's Note: during...

Erik Frithjof Johnsen was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in August 1925 and had one brother who had been born in 1922....

Lester M. Bornstein was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts in February 1925. As a child he was very athletic and played a...

David Oreck trained as a civilian pilot for the Lend-Lease Program [Annotator's Note: An Act to Promote the Defense of...

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