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

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

While off Okinawa, the USS Wisconsin [Annotator’s Note: USS Wisconsin BB-64] picked up some British POWs, which were...

John Cassidy served as an aide to an admiral during his tenure in the Pacific, and the two men got along well. Cassidy...

Forrest Villarrubia found the weather on Guam to be beautiful while he was stationed there after his tour in Leyte. The...

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

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

Robert Powers enjoyed World War 2 more than the Korean War. He had a reason to go in the first war and he enjoyed the...

Murphy Burke had been gone for two years when he got his first leave in April 1945. While overseas he had stayed in...

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...

Allen Tillery left Tinian in late December 1944 and was sent to Guam. When he got there he was assigned to the Japanese...

Marvin Hill went to the Parcel Post building in Richmond to enlist, and underwent a physical. He was rejected, and told...

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