ByĀ Meg Jones
Clayton Chipman was about to charge up a hill on Saipan to dislodge several hundred Japanese soldiers unwilling to concede defeat when he heard the news on a radio.
Japan surrendered. World War II was over.
It’s been seven decades, but the men and women who fought and lost loved ones, who fought and won a war, vividly remember V-J Day.
Chipman, 89, of Brookfield, had been released from a hospital for shrapnel wounds in his shoulder suffered on Iwo 
Jima and was on Saipan with his Marine unit, preparing to fight 300 Japanese holdouts. As he tuned a military radio, he heard chatter between ships moored nearby.
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