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

While approaching Wana Draw on Okinawa, George Peto noticed some movement in the brush off to his left. He realized...

Paul J. Murphy [Annotator’s Note: a fire controlman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] sailed to San Francisco [...

They got into the base and they stayed and ate. The next morning, they put them on a C-47. There was 2 or 3 other ex-...

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,...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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