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Allen Horton was called back to Navy headquarters in New York to pick up a Silver Star. The citation was for his work...

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

Adolph Wilson and the 5th Marine Division assaulted Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: on 19 February 1945]. The island was...

Sidney Philips remembers being in San Diego for two weeks [Annotators Note: after returning from his combat tour in the...

Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

[Annotator's Note: This segment begins with someone off camera talking about Orville Bethard seeing kamikaze aircraft...

Traveling back to the United States, Joe Clapper said they had a mixed complement aboard ship; there were many Navy...

[Annotator's Note: Stanley Richard Williams served in the Navy aboard the mortar ship USS LCI(M)-352 as a signalman and...

Richard Bennett mentioned that one incident stands out as a proud moment. Out of the 15 PT boats in the squadron [...

William Pierce never fired a rifle until he was in the Marine Corps. He became a marksman and then an expert rifleman....

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

Carroll George felt extremely safe [Annotator's Note: in his general quarters station in the engine room aboard the USS...

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