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Indonesian Immigrant Recalls the Time America Freed His Homeland

Indonesian Immigrant Recalls the Time America Freed His Homeland

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A Manchester-By-the-Sea resident recalled the first dropping of an atomic bomb as a time of joy for his occupied homeland. As a boy the man lived in a Japanese internment camp in Indonesia, which was then a colony of the Netherlands known as the Dutch East Indies. Japan invaded the islands early in World War II.

A Manchester-By-the-Sea resident recalled the first dropping of an atomic bomb as a time of joy for his occupied homeland. As a boy the man lived in a Japanese internment camp in Indonesia, which was then a colony of the Netherlands known as the Dutch East Indies. Japan invaded the islands early in World War II.…