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Lieutenant Hagerty was promoted as a liaison officer for the 1st Marine Division and coordinated all of the regiments...

Gerry Jones and his scout partner, Mack [Annotator's Note: unable to verify identity], were out on a patrol mission on...

Melvin Munch would have been part of the invasion force for assaulting the Japanese home islands. The atomic bombs kept...

When he was on the front line, Kenneth Dwight Wells saw people, Japanese soldiers and Okinawan civilians alike, as a...

Richard Witaker faced many hardships on Okinawa. Troops suffered from fatigue resulting from tension and lack of sleep...

Kent Butzer Kellegrew [Annotator's Note: with the 96th Infantry Division] was sent to Okinawa [Annotator's Note:...

Robert W. "RW" Pratt, [Annotator's Note: assigned as the gunnery officer aboard the USS LST-781] was a witness to the...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled that one day [Annotator's Note: one day while he was taking part in the Battle of...

Claude Clifton Cuniff, Junior was assigned to the USS General G.O. Squier (AP-130) out of San Francisco [Annotator's...

Frank Pantuso's outfit [Annotator's Note: 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division] was assigned to support...

Once Utah Beach was secured, Jack Gutman returned to England with the evacuees, and wound up in the officers' ward. His...

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

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