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American infantrymen walk across a field toward hills and a distant plume of smoke. Okinawa (probably), 1945.

Landing crafts LCT-1415, LCT-1179 (probably), LCT-1265, and LCT-1049 unload supplies on Yellow Beach while USS LSM-220...

View from the USS Rutland to the USS Bladen after the attack on Okinawa in April 1945; probably in the Ryukyu Islands...

Harry McKnight arrived at Sugar Loaf Hill [Annotator's Note: a part of the Japanese defensive line known as the Shuri...

Jack Houston had three reasons for enlisting. The first was patriotism. The second was that all of his friends were...

John H. Cole looked up and saw a bomb coming toward him [Annotator's Note: while on Okinawa, Japan]. It tumbled to the...

William Pierce hated the Japanese before landing on Okinawa. Propaganda influenced his animosity. His feelings were...

[Annotator's Note: A woman interrupts interview throughout this segment.] Andrew Petrus returned home [Annotator's Note...

Thomas Francis Schicker knows there is a lot he has forgotten to tell. They took Kunishi [Annotator's Note: Kunishi...

Landing on 1 April [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945], Joe Clapper's platoon went into Okinawa right below Kadena, with...

Charles J. Alvarez Sr. was assigned to the USS Guam (CB-2) as a fireman in June 1944. His crew got along well together...

William J. Twigger's training [Annotator's Note: on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, in September 1944] was mainly...

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