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Rollins Rosenzweig has a vivid memory of looking through his tail gun window as the Yamato was being attacked and...

There was a good 40 knot tail wind that was with them for several hours. When they got to the coast of Kyushu they were...

Dale Peterson had no problem transitioning back to civilian life after his discharge. His most memorable experience was...

David Heath was told the Marines could not use a man with a hole in his stomach, so he was shipped back to Camp...

Before the atomic bomb was dropped [Annotator's Note: nuclear weapons dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on 6 August 1945 and...

[Annotator's Note: William Smith was shot down while attacking Kavieng, New Ireland, New Guinea. He was rescued and...

Richard Keller was at Camp Shelby [Annotator's Note: Camp Shelby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi with Company F, 148th...

Morris Semiatin was born in June 1926 in Baltimore, Maryland. He knew in the late 1930s that there was war going on. He...

Otis Kight and others volunteered for the salvage party to return to Yorktown [Annotator's Note: the USS Yorktown (CV-5...

When the Enterprise [Annotator's Note: USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft carrier] was attacked and ensign Mears and...

Wallace Spencer describes life aboard the USS Essex (CV-9). There was one man aboard who never took showers so they all...

After 13 months in occupied Japan, Clark Wackerman was able to return home. The return home was much worse than the...

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