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On one patrol, Melvin C. Whitman shot a big rat off a fence. The shot scared a hiding Japanese soldier and one of...

Kent Butzer Kellegrew was born in September 1923 in Duluth, Minnesota. After four years in Duluth, his family moved to...

Jeremiah "Jerry" O'Keefe took part in close air support of Marine ground troops, primarily on the southern part of...

James Gaffney felt the Okinawan civilians were glad to see the Americans. They hung around the camp all the time. They...

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

In the fall of 1984, Robert went to Japan for a year. He still hasn't come back [Annotator's Note: Interview was...

After Korea, Walter Bowsher served as the San Diego brig warden. In 1953, he was in charge of the escort section of men...

The war itself is Alvin von Frisch's worse memory of that time. He hated to see people die. He lost good friends who...

George Peto produced some paintings and pieces of propaganda that were based on his unit during battle in the Pacific....

Windom Joseph Burton was born in Brittany, Louisiana in February 1921 . He had six brothers and two sisters. His father...

Marvin A. Roslansky [Annotator's Note: a US Marine captured by the Japanese at Guam, Mariana Islands] was taken [...

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