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Dale LeBlanc had been through Naha many times as a runner. Every time he went through there snipers would shoot at him...

Richard Witaker faced many hardships on Okinawa. Troops suffered from fatigue resulting from tension and lack of sleep...

After Arthur Jackson got back to the United States [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Battle of Okinawa...

Jack Thornhill and the interviewer have just been reminiscing. He can remember things that happened to him when he was...

George A. Damiano was ordered to pick up the dead Japanese [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan], but he refused to do...

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

Jimmie Dyer entered the service in March 1944 after making a deal with his mother to finish high school. He was sworn...

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

They proceeded to Samar to the repair base. The boats had already begun to be renovated because they had been assigned...

James Gaffney was once allowed to buy a case of beer after an announcement that there was an excess supply. Each sailor...

Carl Rieman said if the planes could have carried more ammunition, he could have gotten more enemy kills. The Japanese...

William Pierce recounts an instance of Japanese night time infiltration [Annotator's Note: during combat operations on...

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