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Following the Battle of Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: the Battle of Okinawa, codenamed Operation Iceberg; 1 April to 22...

Francis Bucher says the closest he came to death was when he flew with a drunk commander. He was in the hangar ready...

[Annotator's Note: Muffled talking can be heard in the background throughout this segment.] John Sanford Gilman ended...

John Gehrett [Annotator's Note: as a Supply Officer of a Navy D2 Supply Unit] participated in the occupation of Japan...

Clayton Fisher volunteered to fly an SB2A Brewster [Annotator's Note: Brewster SB2A Buccaneer scout bomber] and lead...

Many men on Nelsyn Ernest Brooks Wade's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Aldebaran (AF-10)] gambled. The officers tried to...

Wesley Waggoner was born in 1927 [Annotator’s Note: May 1927 in Watonga, Oklahoma]. His family was composed of 14...

James W. Metcalf’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was flying in combat and the chance of not making it back....

Robert Freligh served during the war because he felt it was his duty. He was also 20 years old at the time and thought...

David Eugene Turnbull believes that War World 2 has greatly influenced him because it opened his eyes to different...

The USS Yarnell (DD-541) first met the enemy, according to Murphy Burke, at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands...

When he was on shore leave [Annotator's Note: an authorized absence for a short period of time] in occupied Japan,...

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