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  • Bailey, Herman Segment 10

    Bailey has seen the Okinawan civilian jumping off of cliffs on television.

  • Bailey, Herman Segment 11

    Bailey had a picture of himself with a flamethrower on his back.

  • Bailey, Herman Segment 12

    Bailey feels that war should be over with. His division fought the Chinese in North Korea.

  • Bailey, Herman Segment 2

    Bailey checked in with his draft board and was put on a bus to Camp Croft. He told the army recruiter that he wanted to join the Marines.

  • Bailey, Herman Segment 3

    Bailey had been walking around the ship [Annotator's Note: the ship that was taking him to the invasion of Okinawa].

  • Bailey, Herman Segment 4

    Bailey was assigned to unloading ships. When he wasn't unloading ships he was walking around.

  • Bailey, Herman Segment 5

    On the 16th [Annotator’s Note: 16 May 1945 on Okinawa] Bailey moved out but got pinned down again and took cover in another ditch.

  • Bailey, Herman Segment 6

    Bailey continued on.

  • Bailey, Herman Segment 7

    Bailey and the Marines got there [Annotator's Note: Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa] on the 11th [Annotator's Note: 11 June 1945] at 3:30 in the m

  • Bailey, Herman Segment 8

    On Kunishi Ridge on 15 June [Annotator’s Note:  15 June 1945, Okinawa] Bailey and several other Marines went along the ridge with satchel charges b

  • Bailey, Herman Segment 9

    On the 17th of June [Annotator's Note: 17 June 1945 on Okinawa] they moved back off of Kunishi Ridge.

  • Bailey, Kenneth Bronze Star

    In November [Annotator's Note: November 1944], Kenneth H.

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