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At the end of the battle [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan], Louis R. Lepore was brought back to the beach and given a...

Church recently made a trip back to Guam and laid a wreath down at the monument for the soldiers killed there during...

Keith Renstrom felt like he had too much responsibility to stay with his men [Annotator's Note: even after being...

Edwin Joseph Borne, Jr. attempted to correspond with a female Japanese friend who had treated him well after he was...

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

Richard Witaker experienced much the same climate on Okinawa as he knew at home. There were pine trees and cultivated...

Thomas Francis Schicker heard that they changed course four different times [Annotator's Note: aboard the USS General...

Earl Conklin was born in September 1921 in Saint Louis, Missouri. He was a "depression boy" whose father worked for the...

One night the men were on a 100 percent alert. Robert Akins was manning the 37mm antitank gun. Around two in the...

Most of the combat they [Annotator's Note: Arthur Jackson and his fellow Marines of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 7th...

Robert Erskine Hendrick was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1920. He had one younger sister. His father served 30 years in...

Edward Bale began training for the invasion of Japan after the end of the combat on Okinawa. He knew what to expect of...

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