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Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

Edward Bale began training for the invasion of Japan after the end of the combat on Okinawa. He knew what to expect of...

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

[Annotator's Note: A woman interrupts interview throughout this segment.] Andrew Petrus returned home [Annotator's Note...

Clem Thrift's last combat assignment was off of Borneo. There was concern because Japanese soldiers were swimming out...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Vernon Tweedt to tell him about when he got to the Dachau concentration camp in...

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

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

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

Martin Brignac was building an airfield on New Guinea. The work was mostly just leveling the land. On Ie-Shima, Japan,...

They hung around in the area [Annotator's Note: Marvin Perrett and the crew of the USS Bayfield (APA-33), near Okinawa...

Michael Wilford Boos had been with the 74th Station Hospital for three years and when they reached Marina, Pisa in...

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