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William Pierce hated the Japanese before landing on Okinawa. Propaganda influenced his animosity. His feelings were...

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

Harry Bender [Annotator's Note: an assistant BARman, or Browning Automatic Rifleman, with Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th...

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

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

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

There would be holes in the line where there were not enough men [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, 1...

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

Jimmie Dyer and the 6th Marine Division was sent to replace the Army's 27th Infantry Division in the south of Okinawa....

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

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

That same day, Robert Powers [Annotator's Note: Powers asks for the helmet he wore the day he was shot] was on top of...

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