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Melvin Munch stopped at Guam en route to Okinawa. He was concerned about the requirements of going into a war zone. He...

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

Some of the men Ellis Whaley trained with were weeping about being away from home. The climate in Washington was cold....

Richard Witaker distrusted both civilians and soldiers on the Japanese held island of Okinawa. He once had to remove a...

Nevin Sledge remembers that everything was secretive. One of the generals was killed by a sniper. A Marine general took...

Samuel Ukrop was at Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands] with John Cleveland [Annotator's Note...

One night, as Richard Jaccarino was sleeping under his poncho, the Japanese counterattack began. Just below their...

Although in retrospect Holly Rees thinks he may have been naive, he felt certain that his battlefield career was over...

Arthur Jackson's first contact with the enemy on Okinawa was during a patrol. He volunteered for everything. He was...

While on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], Gerry Jones was called over the radio to search for some Japanese...

George Peto and the men of Company L, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines had a few days of rest and got new guns then moved out...

Kenneth Dwight Wells arrived in the Russell Islands [Annotator's Note: Russell Islands, Solomon Islands] and spent some...

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