Preparing for the invasion of Japan

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Burton Johnson arrived in Finschafen, New Guinea in the South Pacific after completing his stateside training. This was...
[Annotator's Note: Charles Chatterton served in the Navy as a radio man aboard the USS LCI(L)-334], a Landing Craft...
When the Japanese surrendered on Luzon [Annotator's Note: Luzon, Philippines], Paul Franklin's unit [Annotator's Note:...
Walter Sapp was part of the occupying force [Annotator's Note: in Berlin, Germany] and they had a non-fraternization...
After Germany surrendered, Lewis Guidry went into occupation duty. Guidry drove a jeep for a major. The major told...
The war was over in May 1945 and Ernest Chauvin left Germany in May 1946. He did occupation duty. His company [...
The Army moved Staff Sergeant Leno E. Stone and the section [Annotator’s Note: of the 44th Infantry Division] he...
Word of the German surrender reached Don Carter. The end of the war signals its most dangerous phase as, although the...
Gerald Kynett could run 20 to 25 word a minute using signal. After stopping at Enewetok [Annotator's Note: Enewetok...
Charles Joseph "Charlie" Fox's [Annotator's Note: serving with the Company H, 2nd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 5th...
Bill Connelly was reassigned as an MP [Annotator's Note: military police] with the 98th infantry Division during the...
Jack Carver served on occupation duty in Linz, Austria. The Americans ran the town, but at night, the SS was still...
When World War 2 ended, Vernon Schmidt and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company E, 358th Infantry Regiment, 90th...
After the surrender of Japan, Erico J. Catalano became a buck sergeant [Annotator's Note: the lowest rank of sergeant...
In late August or early September 1945, Sammy Ray shipped out with the 1st Marine Division [Annotator's Note: Ray was a...
Reginald Duncan was stationed in Hof [Annotator's Note: Hoff, Germany] near Saale River at the end of the war in Europe...
Kenneth F. Thomas had returned to the United States to train for the invasion of Japan, then he was put on a ship...
Adolph Wilson and his outfit sailed back to Hawaii after Iwo Jima. They were being trained to assault Sasebo, Japan as...
Robert Powers returned to Guam [Annotator's Note: Guam, Mariana Islands], which had been built up since he had last...
After the war in Europe ended, Jack Bornstein was sent to the Dora-Nordhausen forced labor camp [Annotator’s Note:...
Before the war ended, Louis J. Armentaro's division [Annotator's Note: Armentaro was a member of Company F, 2nd...
After Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945 at Iwo Jima, Japan], Robert Erskine...
[Annotator's Note: Leon Schafer was on occupation duty in Kagoshima, Japan after the war ended.] The invasion [...
Monroe Scherer was shipped from Saipan to Guam [Annotator's Note: both in the Mariana Islands] for a few days before...
Frank Kern, [Annotator's Note: a corporal in A Battery, 1st Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division]...
Kenneth Theis [Annotator’s Note: Supply and Disbursement Officer aboard the USS Manlove (DE-36)] was part of a giant...
Jules Desloge Brown [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS PCE(R)-855] received news that his ship would take part in the...
Merlin Smith made his way to Okinawa for the real McCoy [Annotator's Note: he was aboard the assault transport ship USS...
William J. Twigger joined the remnant of the division [Annotator's Note: he had originally been a member of Company F,...
Jimmie Dyer and the 6th Marine Division was sent to replace the Army's 27th Infantry Division in the south of Okinawa....
Ralph Hopkins participated in the battle of Okinawa [Annotator's Note: while aboard the USS Louisville (CA-28)]. It was...
Thomas Edgar Morgan, Sr. was assigned to the 2nd Marine Division and sent to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan...
Mitchell Zimmer served aboard two sister-ship submarines, the Snapper [Annotator's Note: USS Snapper (SS-185) and the...
Three weeks after D-Day [Annotator's Note: the Allied invasion of Normandy, France on 6 June 1944], Robert Curl was...
While in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California], Matthew Cornelia boarded an APA [Annotator's Note...
Gerald Kynett picked up his ship in Evansville, Indiana, then sailed down the Mississippi [Annotator's Note:...

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