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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...

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

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

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

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

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

Howard Warren Stokes was born in 1926 in Lodi, California and was an only child. His father supported his family during...

Thomas Lusco Sr. had a difficult time returning home. He would shake in bed at night. He slept in a different bed from...

[Annotator's Note: Fergus Van Wart served in the Navy as a coxswain aboard the USS Bergen (APA-150).] Okinawa [...

[Annotator's Note: Dale LeBlanc served in the USMC as a runner in the 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division. He...

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