Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO)

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Grimes, James Returning Home and Postwar Life
James William Grimes kept in touch with his family by writing letters occasionally. He had a girlfriend in high school...
Guillory, Lloyd Returning Home and Postwar Life
Lloyd Guillory returned to the United States on a Matson cruise ship. There were 800 officers and nurses as passengers...
Harrison, Joseph "Joe" Returning Home and Recalling Battle
Joseph L. Harrison was in Yokosuka [Annotator's Note: Yokosuka, Japan] in November [Annotator's Note: November 1945]....
Bender, Harry Returning Home and Recollections
Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: an assistant BARman, or Browning Automatic Rifleman, with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th...
Bowsher, Walter Returning Home and Reenlistment
Walter Bowsher was sent to Guam [Annotator's Note: after his liberation from a prisoner of war camp in Japan] where he...
Yamamoto, Albert Returning Home and Reflecting on the Atomic Bombs
Albert Yamamoto had to wait for his United States citizenship to be verified before he could return to home from Japan...
Longhoffer, Garland Returning Home and Reflections
Garland Virgil Longhoffer returned home on 1 September 1946, after one year in Japan. He learned some of the Japanese...
Leese, Robert Returning Home and Reflections
With his orders in hand, Robert Leese left New Guinea by way of Nadzab and Finschhafen, and sailed on a transport ship...
Markwald, Ervin Returning Home and Reflections
Ervin Markwald [Annotator’s Note: serving with Headquarters Company, 305th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division on...
Fishman, Arthur Returning Home and Reflections
Arthur Fishman returned to the United States sometime in April or May 1946. He returned to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's...
Penwell, Richard Returning Home and Reflections
Richard F. Penwell was supposed to be going back to New Bilibid Prison [Annotator's Note: Old Bilibid and New Bilibid...
Campisano, Frank Returning Home and Reflections
Frank Campisano was happy to go back home. He was single while in the military and was having a good time. He went...
McLain, Cecil Returning Home and Reunion Stories
Cecil Ezell McLain stopped in Singapore before heading home and witnessed five people die and several people blinded by...
Jacobs, Jr., Walter Returning Home and the Louisiana Maneuvers
[Annotator's Note: Walter Jacobs served in the Army as a squad leader in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 306th Infantry...
Slack, Otis Returning Home and War’s End
Otis Arthur Slack was on Amchitka [Annotator's Note: Amchitka Island, Alaska] when the Japanese withdrew [Annotator's...
Woodall, Wendall Returning Home from the War
Coming home was not a hard adjustment for Wendall Woodall. He and three others hired a guy to drive them to Kansas City...
de Jonge, Wim Returning Home then Immigrating to America
Wim de Jonge returned to Holland where found that the government was not willing to pay his three and a half years of...
Smith, William J. Returning Home with Bataan Survivors
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks William Smith where he was when he heard the news of the atomic bombs being...
Green, Arthur Returning Home, Discharge, and Reflections
Arthur George Green spent about a year on occupation duty in Japan [Annotator’s Note: stationed in Kyushu and Shikoku...
Bannai, Paul Returning Home, Politics and Reflections
While Paul Bannai was in Japan, he knew his family would be able to leave their internment camp. He was given...
Schmittgens, Leo Returning Home, Postwar Life and Reflections
Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...
Kynett, Gerald Returning Home, Postwar Service and Reflections
Gerald Kynett returned to Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note: Pearl Harbor, Hawaii], where he was held up for some time....
Warne, Therese Returning to America
Therese Wadsworth Warne [Annotator's Note: An American child prisoner in the Philippines during World War 2] was...
Prince, Robert Returning to Camp
[Annotator's Note: Robert Prince helped liberate the Cabanatuan Prison Camp, Cabanatuan City, Luzon, Philippines on 30...
Wilson, James Returning to Guadalcanal
James Wilson did not see the bullets coming when he got shot [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of the Tenaru River,...
Goodrich, James Returning to Iwo Jima After the War
Many years after the war, James Goodrich went back to Iwo Jima. The visit helped him a lot with his own feelings about...
Muri, James Returning to Midway
James Muri believes that his gunner shot up a Japanese antiaircraft gun crew on the Akagi but the Japanese claim that...
Hyland, Everett Returning to Pearl Harbor
Everett Hyland had gone back to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in the 1960s and 1980s as a tourist. He thinks of Pearl Harbor...
Mikus, John Returning to Reorganize
John Mikus, Jr. almost got shot when he got back to the United States. He wanted to call home. The women Marines had...
Glusing, Benjamin Returning to the 208th Military Police Company
After graduating from Officer Candidate School, Benjamin Albert Glusing became a second lieutenant and was given orders...
Johnson, John Returning to the Front, VJ-Day and Postwar Service
John E. Johnson went back to the ship, but not all his crewmates did. After replacements came from a nearby receiving...
O'Rorke, James Returning to the Philippines
James Richard O'Rorke was assigned to a Japanese baron and his beautiful home which was safe between Nagasaki [...
Roy, William Returning to the United States
[Annotator's Note: William G. Roy served in the Navy as a Photographer's Mate 2nd Class aboard the aircraft carrier USS...
McKay, Wallace Returning to the United States
Wallace McKay caught a merchant ship back to the United States. It took six weeks to make it back and he was only given...
Rees, Holly Returning to the United States and Discharge
At the 68th Field Hospital, Holly Rees was carried into a Quonset hut and laid on the floor, where he waited while more...
Brooks, Leonard Returning to the United States, Being Drafted and Occupation Duty
On 23 February [Annotator's Note: 23 February 1945] they were out [Annotator's Note: of the Los Baños internment camp...

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