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  July 9th, 1944.   Northern Saipan, Mariana Islands. The   capsule felt impossibly small in her   palm, no…

  April 17th, 1945.   A muddy ditch outside Hybrun, Germany.   The air smells of cordite and wet earth….

  August 4th, 1944.   Supreme Headquarters Allied   Expeditionary Force, Versailles, France.   The message arrived at 0847 hours….

  March 12th, 1945.   Fort Sam, Houston, Texas. The American   medic stared at the girl’s hands and  …

  October 18th, 1944. The Vostas   Mountains, Eastern France. Daniel Yazy   stood at the treeine, watching darkness  …

  September 14th, 1945.   A detention facility near Nottingham,   England. The knock came at dawn. Not the  …

  June 18th, 1945.   Okinawa. The sun burned white against   corrugated metal roofs. Sergeant James   Williams stood…

  October 11th, 1945,   San Francisco Bay. The transport ship’s   engines shuddered to silence as 257   Japanese…

  September 12th, 1945.   Mid-Atlantic. The converted troop ship   rolled through autumn swells, its hall   groaning with…

  July 1945,   Camp Livingston, Louisiana.   The air hung thick with cypress mist and   the slow hum…