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During the night the Japanese must have started a push because the ship [Annotators Note: the destroyer USS Evans]...

Clem Thrift's last combat assignment was off of Borneo. There was concern because Japanese soldiers were swimming out...

William Pierce had good duty for the six or seven months that he was in China [Annotator's Note: serving occupation...

Deen remembers the fear that was prevalent among the replacements, yet they responded when it was time to fight. He...

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...

Edward Bale operated the M4 Medium Tank [Annotator's Note: also known as the Sherman] during World War 2 except when he...

Monroe Scherer took advantage of the G.I Bill and went to NYU [Annotator's Note: New York University, New York, New...

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

Bailey had been walking around the ship [Annotator's Note: the ship that was taking him to the invasion of Okinawa]. He...

On the 16th [Annotators Note: 16 May 1945 on Okinawa] Bailey moved out but got pinned down again and took cover in...

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) were first attacked by Japanese suicide aircraft in the Lingayen...

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

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