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The ship that the Laffey relieved had been there a week and never got hit. They got off of the coast of Okinawa on a...

William Burkett had gotten there [Annotator’s Note: the Philippines then Japan] two weeks after the war was over. At...

Frederick Jenkins was an engineer on a whale boat when the war ended. They left the ship as the she went out on picket...

Returning to his service on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], Arthur Lee said he went ashore on Higgins boats...

[Annotator's Note: Interviewee pauses the interview several times, struggles to remember events, and repeats statements...

James Paul Lynch was going to submarine school in New London [Annotator's Note: New London, Connecticut]. LIFE magazine...

Richard Jaccarino was born in May 1925 in Brooklyn, New York. When he was still an infant, the family moved to the...

George N. Boutwell was born in July 1924 in Birmingham, Alabama. He grew up with one older brother and a younger sister...

Leon Griffith was in the Philippines and was hunting Japanese who were on a mountain and firing artillery shells at...

Robert D. Shaner opted to get out of the Navy and had not really given thought to staying in. He wanted to become a...

Austin H. Kiplinger went to Anacostia Naval Air Station [Annotator's Note: now Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Anacostia...

Thomas Lusco Sr. remembers that at night, there were dogfights between the P-51s [Annotator's Note: North American P-51...

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