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Kawamoto, Yukio Segment 6
[Annotators Note: Yukio Kawamoto served in the army as a Japanese interpreter with the 37th Infantry Division in the...
Hanna, Homer H. Segment 6
The prisoners of war knew that there was a possibility that they would be attacked during the voyage to Japan.When they...
Laborde, Lucien Segment 7
Lucien Laborde had no personal contact with General Patton. People do not understand that war is hell and Laborde is...
Akins,Robert Segment 7
The veterans felt better having other veterans around. When replacements came in Robert Akins knew that they were well...
Van Kirk,Theodore "Dutch" Segment 7
When they reached 10,000 feet, Jeppson [Annotator's Note: USAAF 2nd Lieutenant Morris R. Jeppson, the assistant...
Vessey, John "Jack" Segment 8
John Vessey had just returned from a mission when he was told that a cease fire was going into effect and the war in...
Van Kirk,Theodore "Dutch" Segment 8
They were just over 33,000 feet when they dropped the bomb. It was as high as they could get. When they made it back to...
Hanna, Homer H. Segment 8
Representatives from each camp were taken to Okinawa for a meeting to determine the best way to get the American...
Guarnere, William The Bois Jacques
[Annotators Note: William Guarnere was a paratrooper in Company E, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...
Freligh, Robert The last months of the war
[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served in the navy as a TBM Avenger pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT-13, flying from...
Halpern, Gerard The US had to be in World War 2
Gerard Halpern feels that the United States could not have avoided taking part in World War 2. The United States had...
East, Clyde War's End
By the early days of May [Annotator’s Note: May 1945], Clyde East and most Americans knew the war was over. The Allied...
Viani, Bruno Wounded in Action then Return Home
Bruno Viani spent about a week in Marseilles after his arrival. There was a dock strike there so the troops helped...
A Japanese soldier and his family in Hiroshima, Japan in 1945
A Japanese soldier and his family walk along a pier; a ship can be seen behind them. "Hiroshima. Jap soldier and...
A Japanese soldier returning home. Hiroshima, Japan. 1945
Japanese soldier walks along a pier, away from a ship, and carrying a large pack over one shoulder; "Jap soldier comes...
Aerial photograph of damage to Hiroshima, Japan, after the dropping of the atomic bomb, 1945-46
Aerial view of damage after atomic bomb drop by 10th Air Force. "3PR5M422-IV 153 20AF Restricted." Reverse: "Hiroshima...
Aerial view of atomic bomb damage in Hiroshima, Japan, 1945-46
Aerial view of rubble and devastating, atomic bomb damage. "Hiroshima. See M423-18. After the atomic bomb." Hiroshima,...
Aerial view of atomic bomb damage, Nagasaki, Japan, 1945-46
Aerial view of rubble and devastation after atomic bomb dropped in Nagasaki. "Nagasaki after the atomic bomb." Nagasaki...
Aerial view of planes in an air field in Hiroshima, Japan, 1945-46
Aerial view of flat field; a few Japanese planes scattered below. "3PR5M423-1: 74 -20 AF- p:8:1115K-12:1500 - 500 -...
Destroyed hospital and rubble in Hiroshima, Japan in 1945
Destroyed hospital and rubble in Hiroshima. "Red Cross Hospital, Hiroshima. 100's [of] bodies on floors burned."...
Destruction in downtown Hiroshima, Japan in 1945
View of destruction in Hiroshima. "Hiroshima downtown." Hiroshima, Japan. 1945
Destruction in Hiroshima, Japan with a view of a river in the background in 1945
Destruction in Hiroshima, with a view of a river in the background. "Hiroshima, [likely Nishikawa] West River."...
Devastation of Nagasaki factory district by atomic bomb in Japan as seen on 22 September 1945
"Devastation of Nagasaki industrial (factory) district by 2nd Atomic bomb dropped on Japan (22 Sep 45)." 22 September...
General view of destruction in Hiroshima, Japan in 1945
General view of destruction. "Hiroshima. Looking at news building." Hiroshima, Japan. 1945
Mushroom cloud from atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan, 9 August 1945
Aerial view of the mushroom cloud from atomic bomb. "Atomic bomb." See also 2010.216.369. Nagasaki, Japan. 9 August 1945
Mushroom cloud from atomic bomb over Nagasaki, Japan, 9 August 1945
Aerial view of the mushroom cloud from the atomic bomb. "This is the smoke column caused by the explosion of the second...
Navy officers in Hiroshima, Japan in 1945
Navy officers stand amidst rubble. "Hiroshima. Lt. Norman Molyneaux, Lt. O.L. Miles. Red Cross Hospital [in the]...
View of undamaged or rebuilt bridge over the Ōta River and surrounding war damaged buildings, Hiroshima, Japan, 1945-46
Aerial view of rubble and atomic bomb damage; undamaged or rebuilt bridge in center. "Hiroshima. See M423-23."...

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