Okinawa |
![Image: Donald M. Carlton](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/00033/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"We lost a lot of men that day..."
Donald M. Carlton's story |
![Image: Desmond Thomas Doss](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/32978/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"...I felt like it was an honor to serve my country, according to the dictates of my conscience."
Desmond Thomas Doss' story |
![Image: Tony Fileff](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/03045/ph0005001b.jpg) |
"You really don't realize how destructive war is until you really see it."
Tony Fileff 's story |
![Image: James Mitsuo Furukawa](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/08091/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"The smell of death … is something that stays with you for a lifetime."
James Mitsuo Furukawa's story |
![Image: Carl Albin Hall](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/27180/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"Veterans should not be mute about history. It breeds blind generations of destructive dreamers who have learned nothing ..."
Carl Albin Hall's story |
![Placeholder Image](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/images/placeholder-100.jpg) |
"Bullets are flying in all directions… you [can] hear them but you don't know which way they're going."
Ralph B. Johnson's story |
Concentration Camp Liberation |
![Image: James Ray Clark](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/00602/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"It looked like an explosion or an earthquake in a cemetery."
James Ray Clark's story |
![Image: James Frank Dorris, Jr.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/09711/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"This is what hell is like. In my mind I imagined the devil himself coming up out of the ground."
James Frank Dorris, Jr.'s story |
![Image: Vera Cecilia Palmer](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/17171/ph0002001b.jpg) |
"At the time of her capture, she had spoken seven languages, and here she was, just worried about getting her food."
Vera Cecelia Palmer's story |
![Placeholder Image](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://www.loc.gov/vets/stories/images/placeholder-100.jpg) |
"My feeling was to get those ovens shut down."
Robert M. Walker's story |
V-E Day |
![Image: Paul R. Allen](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/11301/ph0006001b.jpg) |
"Here we were in the middle of Germany, with the war over—our job done."
Paul R. Allen's story |
![Image: Isabelle Cook](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/00028/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"They invited all of the troops—American British, French—to march in full uniform."
Isabelle V. Cook's story |
![Image: John Ernest Dolibois](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/15621/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"...I had driven through Rheims the day that General Jodl was signing the surrender documents, and I didn't even know it."
John Ernest Dolibois' story |
![Image: Ed Goodwin](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/09009/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"We were scared to go out the gate because the women were waiting for us. A lot of us got our clothes ripped off."
Ed Goodwin's story |
![Image: Edward Wallace Hopkins](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/00001/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"Truman was giving his speech about the war being over and suddenly the German planes came over..."
Edward Wallace Hopkins' story |
![Image:Walter Morris](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/02946/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"We looked in [and] could see the German and Italian prisoners of war sitting down at the same table with white soldiers..."
Walter Morris' story |
![Image: Charles Raymond Remsburg, Jr.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/08275/ph0003001b.jpg) |
"... it was interesting to note the different reactions of the German and Dutch people."
Charles R. Remsburg, Jr.'s story |
![Image: Arthur B. Scattergood](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/11027/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"There was a combination of solemn gratitude along with jubilant celebration."
Arthur B. Scattergood's story |
USS Indianapolis |
![Image: Louis Harold Erwin](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/06006/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"We tried to all gather in the water and keep ourselves together where the sharks wouldn't get us."
Louis Harold Erwin's story
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![Image: Giles G. McCoy](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/02879/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"I didn't want to end up in the belly of some shark and neither did the other guys."
Giles G. McCoy's story |
V-J Day |
![Image: Robert Llewellyn Balfour](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/02531/ph0012001b.jpg) |
"I knew all about the atomic bomb two months before it happened, but we didn't know what we knew."
Robert Llewellyn Balfour's story |
![Image: Yukio Kawamoto](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/07420/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"I did my best under trying circumstances with my parents in the camps."
Yukio Kawamoto's story |
![Image: Robert G. Mackey](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/10920/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"We can't have a formal surrender on a general mess table."
Robert G. Mackey's story |
![Image: Joseph Jefferson Mickey](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/10305/ph0001001b.jpg) |
"...send Land, Sea, and Air personnel into Japan, for the occupation of the Japanese Islands."
Joseph Jefferson Mickey's story |
![Image: Glenn Walter Nelson](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/10653/ph0002001b.jpg) |
"... An announcer cut in on the movie and said the Japanese had surrendered."
Glenn Walter Nelson's story |
![Image: Glen Harold Wallace](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090115091111im_/http://lcweb2.loc.gov/natlib/afc2001001/service/11540/ph0007001b.jpg) |
"If we appeared to take death lightly, it was because we had to in order to keep from going crazy."
Glen Harold Wallace's story |