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Murphy Burke had been gone for two years when he got his first leave in April 1945. While overseas he had stayed in...

James Gaffney discusses transition back into civilian life and his home life with two new children following his return...

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

[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with someone off camera talking about Orville Bethard seeing kamikaze aircraft...

Connick and the USS Lander [Annotator's Note: APA-178] brought supplies to Naha Beach on Okinawa. At one point they...

Rollins Rosenzweig continued to fly missions over Okinawa after the attack on the Japanese battleship Yamato. Missions...

They proceeded to Samar to the repair base. The boats had already begun to be renovated because they had been assigned...

Allen Horton was called back to Navy headquarters in New York to pick up a Silver Star. The citation was for his work...

They [Annotator's Note: David Thomason and the other survivors of the USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733) which had been sunk...

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

David Harvey engaged kamikazes at Okinawa, Tokyo, and Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Japan]. The skipper [Annotator's Note...

Dale Peterson's battlestation on the USS San Juan (CL-54) was a five inch 38 caliber gun mount that had a seven man...

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