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Richard Witaker was apprehensive about going ashore before Okinawa. He had seen his first indications of war while at...

[Annotators Note: Robert Ray Akins served in a special weapons company in the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

Louis John Walter sailed on the James Fallen [Annotator's Note: unable to verify ship name]. A couple of Walter's...

Mark Maynard’s second war patrol on his submarine [Annotator’s Note: USS Sturgeon (SS-187)] used the deck gun to fire...

Robert Frederick Reed found that flying near Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan] was traumatic, knowing that...

After processing in California, Arthur Lee was sent to Maui, Hawaii, where he was running a warehouse and cold storage...

Burton "Burt" Johnson was with his unit [Annotator's Note: 1st Marine Division] on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa,...

Near the end of the war, while the 11th Airborne [Annotator's Note: 11th Airborne Division] was flown to Okinawa [...

Howard Warren Stokes was born in 1926 in Lodi, California and was an only child. His father supported his family during...

When Lester Hecht was in Mindanao [Annotator's Note: Mindanao, Philippines], the aircraft he was in charge of always...

During one of his first combat missions, one of the gunners on David Lehigh's plane panicked. He found out a few...

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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