I came across this today on Barcepundit. It is an amateur video from one Richard Sullivan on Vimeo. It shows VJ Day (Victory over Japan) Day in Honolulu, August 14, 1945. It is well-worth viewing. (It is apparently going around the Internet today. I hope I am giving sufficient attribution.)
Born 1945 in Los Angeles. Currently employed since 1998 as adjunct teacher at University of California at Irvine Ext. teaching English as a second language.
Served three years in US Army at Erlangen, Germany 1966-68.
1970-1973- Criminal Investigator with US Customs
1973-1995 Criminal investigator with Drug Enforcement Administration. Stationed in Los Angeles, Bangkok, Milan, Italy, Pittsburgh and Office of Training, FBI Academy, Quantico, Va until retirement. Author of Erlangen-An American's History of a German Town-University Press of America 2005.
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Thanks for the memories...
Kilroy was here...
Johnny Dough Boy found a rose in Ireland...
heh, heh, bet you don't know that last one!
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