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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...

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...

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

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

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

After joining the Navy, David Eugene Turnbull was sent to Great Lakes Training Center [Annotator’s Note: Chicago,...

Dale LeBlanc had been through Naha many times as a runner. Every time he went through there snipers would shoot at him...

Harry Walker Wellford attended the Navy V-12 program [Annotator’s Note: V-12 US Navy College Training Program, 1943 to...

Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: an assistant BAR man, or Browning Automatic Rifleman, with Company K, 3rd Battalion,...

When Jack Houston arrived off Okinawa he was not as afraid as he should have been. In the hours before they left the...

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