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To: GeronL

I don’t know how many were stationed in Japan but most got out. All I know is a lot of war-weary vets of the European theater were ready or in the process of deploying to the Pacific and lucked out. My Dad spent almost a year back in the states before he got out. I missed being a military brat by two months.

I expect enlistees had to serve out their time while draftees duty ended with the actual war.


30 posted on 12/03/2013 12:33:17 PM PST by beelzepug (if any alphabets are watchin', I'll be coming home right after the meetin')
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To: beelzepug

I think we had nearly a million troops in Japan at the start of the occupation.


32 posted on 12/03/2013 12:53:51 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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