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Navy veteran recalls World War II days, from D-Day to Japanese surrender
Charles Richter served on USS Quincy
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World War II veteran Charles Richter points himself out in a group photo inside a USS Quincy book. Richter served aboard the heavy cruiser during the war.
When the Japanese surrender finally came, marking the end of the brutal, bloody World War II, it was no big surprise to Charles Richter. “It was an anticlimax,” said Richter, a resident of Lanier Village Estates in North Hall. “We saw it coming. (The Japanese) just had no way out.”