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Robert Powers went ashore unopposed at Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. He was in a foxhole with his buddy...
The uniform pants Walter Barnes wore were baggy and the jackets hung out. The uniform was made of a canvas type...
After Aschaffenburg [Annotator's Note: Aschaffenburg, Germany], Eugene Yackel went through Nuremberg [Annotator's Note...
Catholic nuns looked after the wounded in Normandy [Annotator's Note: Normandy, France], Holland, and Bastogne [...
Anna McCalla Noren was born in Chillicothe, Ohio in 1921. She grew up on a farm with her parents and four siblings...
In Joe Pigott's opinion, General Smith [Annotator's Note: US Army General Walter Bedell Smith] was "one of the best";...
Of all the ground crew personnel, Edwin Sved recalled only one with whom his crew got close. He told the tale of a...
He was a young kid, and Aaron Baumgarten didn't know what to expect from the Russians; he just knew that they were...
The officers would "talk a lot about things," Donald Campbell says, it was a furious campaign [Annotator's Note: the...
Before going to China, John Alison was sent to England to observe how the air war over England was progressing. Small...
Robert D. Shaner got off the ship [Annotator's Note: the USS LST-475] and explored [Annotator's Note: after they landed...
In October of 1945 United States forces came to occupy Matsuyama [Annotator's Note: Matsuyama, Japan] and had a formal...
Shortly after Frederick Ellis reached Japan and the point system was in place for sending them home. The points got...
Walter J. Latiolais, Sr. landed in Yokohama, Japan [Annotator's Note: following the end of the war in September 1945]....
Norman Hatch disembarked his ship in Nagasaki Harbor to begin the occupation of Japan and immediately saw the...
Elliot Goldstein was sent overseas to Hof, Germany for occupation duty in 1946 [Annotator’s Note: with the 94th...
[Annotator's Note: Dale Smith served in the Navy aboard the submarine tender USS Proteus (AS-19) and was at Kamakura,...
Lloyd Guillory was sent to Japan near Kanagawa two weeks after the war ended. Things were disorganized. The squadron [...
Trinidad Ledesma was sent to Yokohama, Japan [Annotator's Note: on occupation duty after World War 2]. The streets were...
After the war ended, Ernest Cowell was sent to Korea [Annotator's Note: with the 20th Infantry Regiment, 6th Infantry...
After Okinawa [Annotator's Note: the battle of Okinawa, Japan], Harry McKnight was sent back to Guam [Annotator's Note...
Leo William Schmittgens waited sometime before his ship had arrived for them to leave Okinawa. He helped load the ship...
William B. Hughes was in Wiesbaden during the occupation [Annotator's Note: Hughes was in Germany serving in the United...
Jack Wilt grew up with his German great-grandparents and knew some German. However, when he reached Nuremberg, Germany...
Dracos Burke was deployed to Germany, and put into the last B-17 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy...
The disbanded 1st Special Service Force [Annotator's Note: also referred to as "the Force"] were spread all over...
William Winter would go out with the patrols to round up Japanese soldiers. They had an airplane and would go pick...
William Wayne and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division]...
Nobuo Hayashi remembers when the Americans arrived in their jeeps playing jazz music. He did not trust them at first...
In the occupation of Korea [Annotator's Note: Korean War, 1950 to 1953], Alfred "Al" Danegger and his men found a...
John Bellecci and a friend went to a place called Nikko [Annotator's Note: the site of the Toshogu Shinto Shrine] in...
Following his fourth year at Wentworth [Annotator’s Note: Wentworth Military Academy and College in Lexington, Missouri...
In the summer before the October revolution [Annotator's Note: Hungarian Revolution of 1956, or Hungarian Uprising, 23...
Warren Nolan was in the middle of his sophomore year at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana when the Japanese...
Wilbur Thomas enrolled in the school's ROTC [Annotator's Note: Reserve Officer Training Corps] program while he...
Harley Bridger recalls a mission on 13 October, Friday the 13th, 1944 to Blechhammer, Germany. It was a synthetic oil...

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