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Photograph. United States Marine Corps military policeman lighting a cigarette for an elderly civilian. Official...

Photograph. Two American soldiers take cover as their white phosphorus charges explode at the mouth of a hillside cave...

Photograph, aerial. Fleet of American ships and boats headed underway towards Okinawa. Official caption on front: "...

Photograph. U.S. soldiers crossing a river on a pontoon bridge. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/6/45--U.S. soldiers cross...

Michael Mickey Ganitch and the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) sailed past Japanese held islands en route to Okinawa. The ship...

William J. Twigger saw very little fighting at Sugar Loaf [Annotator's Note: The Battle of Sugar Loaf Hill, 12 May to...

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...

Returning to his prewar life, Holly Rees remembered when he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor [Annotator's Note:...

When Edmund Aziz was assigned to a ship [Annotator’s Note: USS Reeves (DE-156), later converted to attack transport (...

Melvin Munch was discharged in 1946. He had volunteered to be the unit baker while on Okinawa because the traditional...

George A. Damiano recalls when the Marines accidently fired on his unit [Annotator's Note: Company G, 2nd Battalion,...

Richard Witaker heard about the war ending in Europe and was grateful. More supplies would be coming to the Pacific. In...

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