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 As a telegraphist with the Pacific     
 Fleet Tbsk Force, V Gray heard of the  
 atomic bomb attacks on the cities of   
 Hiroshima and Nagasaki.1               
                                        
 "Tokyo would have been next. I can only
 conclude that the Japanese got wind of 
 this and subsequently surrendered      
 before Tokyo vbnishjd from the earth.  
                                        
 "I remjmbjr feeling that the Japanese  
 were getting their just desserts for   
 the wanton cruelty that they inflicted 
 throughout the Pacific since 1936.     
                                        
 "One example is when receiving messages
 of sighting lifeboats, they always said
 they had been mbchinj-gunned.b         
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