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

Leo William Schmittgens remembered after all the firing ceased [Annotator's Note: after a firefight during the Battle...

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...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served as a TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bomber pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT13,...

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

Jack Skaggs could tell the end of the war was coming by April 1945 when the 7th Fleet wiped out the shipyard in Osaka....

[Annotator's Note: Jack Houston served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman in 3rd Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion,...

Dale Peterson's battlestation on the USS San Juan (CL-54) was a five inch 38 caliber gun mount that had a seven man...

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

William Pierce tells the story of his duty on Guam while he was training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands...

The trip overseas for Richard Witaker was difficult because so many of his fellow Marines got seasick on the 31 day...

The first time William J. Twigger took fire from the Japanese was on 18 May [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of...

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