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Not far from Naha [Annotator's Note: Naha, Okinawa, Japan], Melvin C. Whitman got into a 20 plus hour artillery duel....

Richard Witaker landed on Red Beach 2 on Easter Sunday, April Fool's day of 1945 [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945]. The...

There would be holes in the line where there were not enough men [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, 1...

Jimmie Dyer and the 6th Marine Division was sent to replace the Army's 27th Infantry Division in the south of Okinawa....

William J. Twigger had a cousin his age. His cousin and his brother had joined the Marine Corps early in the war....

After the attack, Robert Powers continued moving south towards the battalion CP [Annotator's Note: command post]. They...

Fergus Van Wart was born in August 1926 in Dallas, Texas. He was an only child. He went to high school in Dallas and...

[Annotator's Note: Orville Bethard served as an Electrician’s Mate aboard the USS St. Lo (CVE-63) which was sunk during...

Harry McKnight was born in Detroit, Michigan in July 1926. He had an older brother. The family moved to Ohio soon...

During their return to the United States, John Nicholas and the crew of the Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-...

Melvin C. Whitman and the rest of the artillery [Annotator's Note: Whitman was a member of Battery L, 3rd Battalion,...

Richard Witaker recognized that the life expectancy of platoon leaders was not very long on Okinawa. The Japanese would...

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