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Richard Witaker recognized that the life expectancy of platoon leaders was not very long on Okinawa. The Japanese would...

[Annotator's Note: Dr. Robert Beynon was serving aboard the USS Bowfin (SS-287) when it survived an attack by a...

Adolfo V. Celaya heard men who seemed to know each other [Annotator’s Note: while in the Pacific Ocean after the...

Ellis Whaley's training had been in engineering. He was given a transit and laid out roads and a cemetery. He had some...

James N. Rizzo sailed overseas to the Pacific. He did not travel with his whole group [Annotator's Note: 553rd Air...

When they left the ground they were going a little under 80 miles per hour. The ship was making about 20 knots and...

John Bradley was born in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Philippines] in May 1936. Bradley's father enlisted in the...

[Annotator’s Note: Video skips throughout the segment and the audio does not sync with the video.] Robert C. Hammond Jr...

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-...

Joe Clapper's unit [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] landed on...

William S. “Bill” Beamish’s most memorable experience of World War 2 was when his fiancée came to the railroad station...

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