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[Annotator's Note: he was], Walter Knapps [Annotator's Note: a Marine guard on Ford Island Naval Air Station during...

Robert Powers went ashore unopposed at Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]. He was in a foxhole with his buddy...

Thomas Kolesa feels he had the best education he could have ever gotten from the Marine Corps. When he got into...

Charles Womack saw many civilians on Okinawa. The civilians would bow as the Marines passed by them. Womack's unit [...

By the time he went overseas, Julian Trist Bringier McConnell did not have heavy ammunition. He spent most of his time...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Houston served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman in 3rd Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion,...

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

William Pierce reveals a lucky find of a BAR [Annotator's Note: Browning Automatic Rifle] trigger assembly with a hand...

[Annotator’s Note: The interviewee’s wife interjects throughout this clip.] Sherwin Lansing Eddy readjusted to civilian...

Thomas Francis Schicker says the Japanese would put cut off heads, penises, testicles and put them on shafts. They...

Stewart Bass participated in the sinking of the Japanese battleship Yamato on 7 April 1945. Weather conditions were not...

Nevin Sledge admired the SeaBees [Annotator's Note: Members of US naval construction battalions]. They did everything...

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