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[Annotator's Note: Robert J. Ferris was pilot in Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) and took part in combat...

Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

Bailey continued on. After he passed Naha [Annotators Note: May 1945, Naha, Okinawa] he encountered civilians for the...

Jack Skaggs could tell the end of the war was coming by April 1945 when the 7th Fleet wiped out the shipyard in Osaka....

The battle ended on June 21st [Annotators Note: On Okinawa in 1945]. The Sixth Marine Division went on to China. Mack...

[Annotator's Note: Arthur Jackson served in the US Marine Corps as an automatic rifleman in Company I, 3rd Battalion,...

William Pierce had good duty for the six or seven months that he was in China [Annotator's Note: serving occupation...

Bailey and the Marines got there [Annotator's Note: Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa] on the 11th [Annotator's Note: 11 June 1945...

William Pierce never fired a rifle until he was in the Marine Corps. He became a marksman and then an expert rifleman....

Jimmie Dyer entered the service in March 1944 after making a deal with his mother to finish high school. He was sworn...

When Mack was going into Okinawa in the Higgins boat, he claims he had a vision. It was a vision of his mother. His...

Deen remembers the fear that was prevalent among the replacements, yet they responded when it was time to fight. He...

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