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[Annotator's Note: David Thomason served in the Navy aboard the USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733) and took part in the...

[Annotator's Note: Dale LeBlanc served in the USMC as a runner in the 22nd Marine Regiment, 6th Marine Division. He...

A typical day for John Caraway consisted of reading and distributing daily dispatches, and receiving and sending coded...

Patrick Russell flew ground support for the battle of Okinawa. His plane carried various types of ordnance. Some had...

Jack Gutman said that because there were so many, the wounded were taken off Okinawa and brought back to various ships...

When Masaji Inoshita got to the ceremony [Annotator's Note: a Japanese surrender ceremony in China] he found out that...

Gerry Jones recalls that the Japanese would push the Okinawan [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] natives through the...

Michael Mickey Ganitch and the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) sailed past Japanese held islands en route to Okinawa. The ship...

Merlin Smith made his way to Okinawa for the real McCoy [Annotator's Note: he was aboard the assault transport ship USS...

James Gaffney never spotted any Japanese while patrolling Bougainville. They did observe and report a bright light on...

Returning to the Pacific on the USS Brown (DD-546), John Cassidy participated in the invasion of Okinawa. He was there...

Introduced to Okinawa through a rubberized topographical map, Richard Jaccarino could see where they would be landing,...

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