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After the battle of Okinawa, Arnold Addison stayed on the island until the war was over. A few weeks after the war's...

Ralph Griffith was moved on a hospital ship from Manchuria to Okinawa and there he ran into friends he knew before the...

They got into the base and they stayed and ate. The next morning, they put them on a C-47. There was 2 or 3 other ex-...

Forrest Villarrubia found the weather on Guam to be beautiful while he was stationed there after his tour in Leyte. The...

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

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

Romus Valtin Burgin worked with a contact officer from the VA [Annotator's Note: Veterans Administration] named Frank...

After Okinawa, James Odom went back to Guam. They heard a "message to all ships" about the signing of the peace treaty...

Bailey feels that war should be over with. His division fought the Chinese in North Korea. Young men are fighting today...

For Charles Balaza, flights of American planes over the prison camp foretold the oncoming victory. The end was near....

Traveling back to the United States, Joe Clapper said they had a mixed complement aboard ship; there were many Navy...

Curtis Brooks was aboard a transport aircraft after being liberated from the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila,...

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