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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Return with Effects
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Notes

  • Author's note: The following undated journal pages were among Corporal Ryan's personal effects. Include with items to be sent to his mother. Attach inventory.
  • Author's note: Steve Ryan was my uncle and his experiences with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in japan were the starting poing for this poem. Unlike the persona assumed here, my uncle survived his time in Japan.

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    y separately published work icon Eureka Street vol. 18 no. 14 18 July 2008 Z1542553 2008 periodical issue 2008
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Subjects:
  • Hiroshima, Honshu,
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    Japan,
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    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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    Japan,
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    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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