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Wesley Zacharias, 2007
Branch of Service: United States Army
Highest Rank: Private First Class
Military Service: April 1945 - November 1946
Listen to the following sections by clicking on the timecode below.
0:00 - Service information (drafted)
1:20 - Atomic bomb dropped; part of the occupation forces in Japan
4:35 - Married before the war; son ten months old before met him; wrote many letters
542 - Experience in Japan; smelled like dead fish
8:51 - Nothing left after the bombing; burned up
10:02 - Life after the war (farming)
11:42 - He felt the war would have continued a lot longer without the use of the atomic bomb
12:52 - What people should know about WWII
14:05 - The press
16:00 - Occupying force
17:40 - K and C rations (food)
20:02 - At home; tried to forget the war; son in Vietnam War
21:28 - Hunger was horrible in Japan after the war; the worse thing he saw during the war
