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

Following the war's conclusion, Claude Taylor sailed aboard LSM-352 [Annotator's Note: LSM stands for Landing Ship,...

William Pierce remembers a buddy being wounded on Okinawa. It was the same buddy who had fired a shot erroneously and...

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

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

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...

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

Still in the Philippines, Clem Thrift's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] moved on to bombarding the...

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

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

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

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

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