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[Annex 2 to the Directive of the Terms of Surrender, September 3, 1945]

Description: Annex 2 to Directive Number 2 to be presented to the Commanding General of the First Japanese General Army providing more detailed instructions for initiating the provisions required by the Directive regarding Armed Forces organization and transportation.
Date: September 3, 1945
Creator: Office of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers

[Diary Entry: "Guadalcanal" and Other Entries, April 16, 1945]

Description: Diary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience onboard the USS Monitor (LSV-5). He discusses his feelings of visiting historic sites, Guadalcanal and Savo Island, the beautiful view in the Iron Bottom Bay Officers' Club restroom, having marines onboard, sailing through a typhoon, and what servicemen do before big battles.
Date: April 16, 1945
Creator: Jones, Edgar, 1915-2009
Location: -9.228638 159.955034

[Diary Entry: In the Philippines, January 18, 1945]

Description: Diary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience onboard the USS Monitor (LSV-5). He discusses his first time on shore in the Philippines in order to get some film from aircraft guns developed and the things he saw along the way.
Date: January 18, 1945
Creator: Jones, Edgar, 1915-2009

[Diary Entry: "So the War's Over" and Other Entries, May 9, 1945]

Description: Diary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience aboard the USS Monitor LSV-5. He discusses the end of the war in the European theater and how the news of Victory in Europe Day was received by the servicemen in the Pacific, types of people one might encounter at the Officer's Club, and his feelings towards his country during the colors ceremony.
Date: May 9, 1945
Creator: Jones, Edgar, 1915-2009

[Diary Entry: The End of the Road, August 1945]

Description: Diary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience aboard the USS Monitor (LSV-5). He discusses preparations to receive released prisoners of war, meeting with officers who helped develop the atomic bomb, transferring men between an LCVP and the USS Wisconsin BB-64 and USS Iowa (BB-61), landing at various places in Japan to receive the prisoners, and stories of the prisoners' treatment in Japan.
Date: 1945-08-04~
Creator: Jones, Edgar, 1915-2009

[Diary Entry: "This Is About a Dog" and "This Is About a Family", Unknown Date]

Description: Diary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience onboard the USS Monitor (LSV-5). He discusses the beautiful sights of the island he is on, the cocker spaniel that came aboard the Monitor and her broken leg, and a pleasant visit with a family of Chinese origin called the Fo's on the island.
Date: unknown
Creator: Jones, Edgar, 1915-2009

[Diary Entry: This Is About a Man, January 30, 1945]

Description: Diary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience onboard the USS Monitor (LSV-5). He discusses meeting an Army sergeant who was a Japanese prisoner of war and escaped duringthe invasion of Leyte, taking refuge with Filipino guerrilla forces.
Date: January 30, 1945
Creator: Jones, Edgar, 1915-2009
Location: 10.738134 125.302723

[Diary Entry: "Two Nights Before D-Day" and Other Entries, Apr-May 1945]

Description: Diary entry by Edgar Jones about his experience onboard the USS Monitor (LSV-5). He discusses confusion surrounding the sinking of a Japanese ship, a problem with a stewards mate's life belt, an attack by a Japanese plane on an American ship, and events during the Battle of Okinawa.
Date: 1944-04?/1944-05?
Creator: Jones, Edgar, 1915-2009

[Directive on the Terms of Surrender, September 3, 1945]

Description: Directive outlining the terms for Japanese surrender and all the steps to be taken for the transfer of power from the Imperial Japanese government to the Allied occupational government.
Date: September 3, 1945
Creator: Office of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers

[Doolittle Raid Operation Log, April 18, 1942]

Description: Operation Log from the Doolittle Raid taken from the USS Hornet by then SN Leo R. Cantrell. Written in pencil, the document gives minute by minute detail of the launch, with exact times, and includes launch times for each take-off by plane number
Date: April 18, 1942
Creator: Cantrell, Leo R.

Information Education Bulletin No. 21, October 4, 1945

Description: Bulletin providing information on Japanese customs, including the Japanese life cycle from birth until death and Japanese education, religion, family structures, clothing, and food culture.
Date: October 4, 1945
Creator: 27th Infantry Division

Information Education Bulletin No. 26, October 14, 1945

Description: Outline for the Information & Education Conference on October 20, 1945 regarding the odds of another war occurring following World War II, based on an article by John Fischer titled "Odds Against Another War" published in Harper's Magazine of which a copy is furnished. The outline and article discuss how the two world Super Powers, the United States and the Soviet Union, are the only nations capable of waging a global war and how their mutual desire to build a security sphere orbiting around ea… more
Date: October 14, 1945
Creator: 27th Infantry Division

T-N-T

Description: Typed account "T-N-T" of bombing of USS Marathon at Okinawa on July 22, 1945, written by Kenneth E. Haden of the ship's crew. Included with the document is an envelope addressed to Mrs. Silas Haden with handwritten notes including "Kenneth account of Bombing."
Date: October 11, 1945
Creator: Haden, Kenneth E.

[Operations Plans, Iwo Jima, 4th Marine Division]

Description: Document describing the debarkation and approach schedule, air and naval gunfire support, and other plans for the proposed invasion of Iwo Jima, 4th Marine Division.
Date: January 14, 1945
Creator: Eberhardt, F. C.

Oral History Interview with A. J. Dunn, July 13, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with A J Dunn. Dunn joined the Navy in 1940 and received basic training in San Diego. Upon completion, he was assigned to the USS Oglala (CM-4) at Pearl Harbor. On the morning of 7 December 1941, he was returning from liberty when the attack began. Unable to find his ship, he jumped aboard the USS Mugford (DD-389) just as it was getting underway. After seven days of patrols, he returned to the harbor and was transferred to the US… more
Date: July 13, 2011
Creator: Dunn, A. J.

Oral History Interview with A. K. Sheffield, May 20, 2016

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with A K Sheffield. Sheffield joined the Navy in late 1943. He completed Armed Guard School in San Diego. He served with the Navy Armed Guard aboard a transport ship, and traveled to the Philippine Islands. In May of 1944, Sheffield was aboard the SS Henry Bergh when it ran aground on the Farallon Islands, and shares details of those events. He traveled through the Pacific Islands, to Japan and throughout the Atlantic. Sheffield does … more
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Sheffield, A. K.

Oral History Interview with A. N. Wiseman, March 29, 2011

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Al Wiseman. Wiseman joined the Navy in 1942 and was assigned to the USS Greene (AVD-13). He served as a deck seaman and stood lookout while on watch. Wiseman discusses traveling as an escort to Brazil and then travelling to the Mediterranean. He describes taking part in the invasion of Southern France. The Greene was then sent to the Pacific and performed escort duty near Okinawa. He describes seeing several Japanese air att… more
Date: March 29, 2011
Creator: Wiseman, Al

Oral History Interview with a Palau Native

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with a native of Palau born in 1917. He lived briefly in Saipan and returned to Angaur, Palau, as a young man. In 1943 when the bombing of Palau first began, he volunteered for the Japanese Navy to avoid starvation, since natives were prohibited from buying imported food such as rice. He boarded a ship that was sunk by an American submarine and spent the night floating amidst 12-foot sharks. In the morning, he swam to a damaged b… more
Date: unknown

Oral History Interview with Abe Santos, February 24, 2001

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Abe Santos. Santos joined the Navy in November of 1939. He served as a Fireman aboard the USS Astoria (CA-34). They participated in the battles of the Coral Sea, Midway and Savo Island, where the ship was sunk. He traveled back to Pearl Harbor aboard the USS Wharton (AP-7). Santos was placed on tugboat duty for six months, then transferred to Johnston Island as a Second-Class Machinist’s Mate. He assisted with airstrip constructi… more
Date: February 24, 2001
Creator: Santos, Abe

Oral History Interview with Abel Ortega, July 15, 2002

Description: The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Abel Ortega. Ortega was drafted into the Army in March, 1941 and was in the Philippines by November. Ortega was with a tank battalion on Luzon and recalls the retreat to and subsequent surrender on Bataan. Ortega also recalls how his Christian faith served him, and others around him, during captivity. He describes his experiences on the Bataan Death March. Ortega remained in the Philippines for over two years before being sh… more
Date: July 15, 2002
Creator: Ortega, Abel
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