Search results

Map is loading...

Burton "Burt" Johnson was with his unit [Annotator's Note: 1st Marine Division] on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa,...

After being wounded in Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] Kenneth Dwight Wells was taken to an airfield and...

[Annotator's Note: Don Daniels was part of a Marine machine gun crew during the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japan.] He says...

Richard Witaker felt hatred for the Japanese before the assault of Okinawa. The feelings had begun with the surprise...

Robert Frederick Reed found that flying near Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] was traumatic, knowing that...

Charles Martin was at the hospital when the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: 15 August 1945]. He found out that...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Calvin Moore which Pacific islands stand out to him the most.] Okinawa [...

Richard Witaker was awarded the Purple Heart for being wounded on Okinawa. He was leaving Sugar Loaf Hill when a buddy...

Thomas Joseph Lemme went directly from Hawaii to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan with Company G, 2nd...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Urban was at Bougainville, Papua New Guinea with Marine Fighting Squadron 212 (VMF-12).] It...

When Lester Hecht was in Mindanao [Annotator's Note: Mindanao, Philippines], the aircraft he was in charge of always...

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

Oral History