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Some of the men Ellis Whaley trained with were weeping about being away from home. The climate in Washington was cold....

There were no jobs when Charles Bruce got out of the service. He got married right away. He met a high school girl and...

John Snyder's most memorable invasion of World War 2 was the invasion of Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan]....

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Calvin Moore which Pacific islands stand out to him the most.] Okinawa [...

Paul J. Frisco's first combat action aboard the USS Cushing (DD-797) escorting the fast carriers during the invasion of...

James Stewart Rosenbaum's most memorable experience was when his friend went on a mission and was killed by a sniper....

The only help Fiske Hanley remembers getting from the Red Cross while he was overseas was the loan of two books when he...

While on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan], Gerry Jones was called over the radio to search for some Japanese...

When Davis Gordon Mayes returned to San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California] his records were lost...

Philip Mayer was a sergeant [Annotator's Note: in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division]...

When the Marines were about half way down Okinawa the Japanese got around behind them. Robert Akins and some of his...

William Lutz left his unit when there was no shooting. It was as if the war had stopped. He just kept walking. The...

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