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Alfred Dearman says that Sugamo Prison [Annotator's Note: in Tokyo, Japan] was the largest, most modern prison in Japan...

H. Lloyd Wilkerson was sent back to the Pacific, and served with the Sixth Marine Division on Guam before being loaded...

Bill Connelly was reassigned as an MP [Annotator's Note: military police] with the 98th infantry Division during the...

George A. Damiano had issues with a new commanding officer [Annotator's while serving on occupation duty in Korea with...

Carey Eleser turned 21 on 5 August 1945 and went into a bar to get a beer. On 6 August the atomic bomb was dropped and...

Richard Lafleur was not assigned to a unit after training. He knew he was going to be in the 1st Cavalry Division....

For the invasion of Japan, Richard Nummer and the American troops were issued wool blankets and green fatigues to fight...

Richard Antoine Hammer, Sr. sailed to many ports in the Japanese islands after the war. Following three months there,...

[Annotator's Note: Clyde Nordstrom was in Japan on occupation duty and was a guard for the emperor's summer palace.]...

William Burkett remembers the Philippines as a pretty country. He drove everywhere. He drove a truck to Manila [...

Learning of the Japanese surrender was a relief for Don Daniels. He was on a ship off Honolulu [Annotator's Note:...

[Annotator's Note: Howard Warren Stokes served in the 27th Infantry Division. Soon after the war's end, he was sent...

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