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

In preparation for hitting the beaches, Joe Clapper said a soldier's main concern is that he has enough ammunition. He...

Jack Thornhill and the interviewer have just been reminiscing. He can remember things that happened to him when he was...

Jack Skaggs could tell the end of the war was coming by April 1945 when the 7th Fleet wiped out the shipyard in Osaka....

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

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

William Pierce tells the story of his duty on Guam while he was training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands...

Jack Gutman said the flashbacks would come when he went to bed, and the memories were magnified: the invasions, the...

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

Among his fellow officers, Earl Conklin thought there were a couple who were marvelous fellows and he has kept in touch...

Albert Reale thought the Japanese were miserable people, and seeing the surviving soldiers from Okinawa reinforced his...

Freeman Dyson was not involved with the Manhattan Project. He was totally surprised at the dropping of the atomic bombs...

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