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[Annotator's Note: Fergus Van Wart served in the Navy as a coxswain aboard the USS Bergen (APA-150).] Okinawa [...

Donald H. "Don" Bee saw his first action [Annotator's Note: as a crewman aboard the USS Intrepid (CV-11)], when a...

Rudolph C. Miller liked the Marines. He was a sucker for the uniform, and he liked it a lot. They were sharp and he...

In the first days of June [Annotator's Note: June 1942], Donald Hoff and his fellow airmen were getting nervous,...

Robert Barnett was born in November 1926 in Cincinnati [Annotator's Note: Cincinnati, Ohio] and has lived there all of...

Lawrence Winnier cannot really blame the people because it [Annotator's Note: racial discrimination in the service] was...

Peter Hebert’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was wanting to join the Navy and the patriotism of the country...

Socrates Dendrinelis would always get the worst details. He was in a boxing match with some of the other guys on the...

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

John Caraway's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bridge (AF-1)] was anchored in the harbor at Okinawa when he heard about the...

Walter Bud Gafford [Annotator's Note: while serving aboard the USS Maryland (BB-46)] witnessed combat off Okinawa [...

During the last advance Wahlen was involved in, he was called forward to treat a badly wounded marine [Annotators Note...

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