-CH2B- Ship Duties The next morning pandemonium broke out on deck during morning chow. The cook went into a terrible rage and every navy officer from CO to deck officer assembled at the entrance to the mess hall. The navy
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-CH2A- Slow Boat to China The 29th Marines had three days to get ready to sail for China. Finally, on September 30, 1945, we made our way in a convoy of heavy trucks to the docks at Agana. Fox Company
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-CH1D- Japan Surrendered, But We’re Not going Home News of Japan’s surrender was finally confirmed. Stevenson was right. The A-bomb had ended the war. We were told that on August 28, 1945. Only a few days before, the USS Missouri had sailed triumphantly
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-CH1C- At Home in Guam Tent City was far better than our accommodations on Okinawa. No one complained. It was in a way an actual city laid out in quadrants with rows of tents in neat orderly lines. Each tent
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-CH1B- What lead to Japan’s surrender? The capture of Iwo Jima, less than eight square miles of real estate consisting of nothing more than volcanic ash, cost the Marine Corps nearly 26,000 casualties.  At Okinawa, kamikaze pilots willfully crashed 7,830
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-CH1A- The war is over The date is August 15, 1945. The place, Tent City on Guam. It’s late, long after midnight. The sound grew louder. The sound, at first, was faint, far-off, like the wind that rustles the trees
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