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Carl Rieman said if the planes could have carried more ammunition, he could have gotten more enemy kills. The Japanese...

Lyle Bird asked for, and his parents granted, permission for him to enter the Navy at age 17. He attended boot camp in...

Emmett Guderian's Navy career gave him all kinds of new experiences, from world travel to intense emotions. He...

Lyle Bird was assigned as a signalman and bugler aboard the USS Okanogan (APA-220) in the Pacific at the end of the war...

Clarence Robert Duff recalled picking up survivors from the USS Franklin (CV-13) during the kamikaze attacks off...

Frederick Jenkins was in damage control in the machine shop where the kamikaze [Annotator's Note: Japanese suicide...

Cecil Ezell McLain was born in November 1921 in Auburn, Alabama. He grew up through the Great Depression in Robertsdale...

During the invasion of Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg, 1 April to 22...

After Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], F. Lincoln Grahlfs received orders to tow away the USS Hugh W. Hadley...

Socrates Dendrinelis remembers the kamikazes [Annotator's Note: Japanese suicide bombers] hitting the ships. It made a...

The USS Champion (AM-314) moved to the Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] area, and Elmer Spraker said it was...

Socrates Dendrinelis did not date in high school. He was the president of his class. He went out with the vice-...

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