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[Annotator's Note: Robert J. Ferris was pilot in Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) and took part in combat...

After Okinawa, John Nicholas and the USS Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-239)] were sent to sweep for mines in...

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

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

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

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

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

From China, the USS Balduck (ADP-132) took Donald Dean and the rest of the crew back to Okinawa, then to Hawaii,...

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...

[Annotator's Note: A woman interrupts interview throughout this segment.] Andrew Petrus returned home [Annotator's Note...

They [Annotator's Note: David Thomason and the other survivors of the USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733) which had been sunk...

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

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