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

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

Leo William Schmittgens recalled the first day on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945], his regiment [Annotator's...

The USS Twiggs (DD-591), according to Donald Witmer, was then assigned to Roger Peter 2, a radar picket station, which...

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

Armando Galella's duties changed when he became battalion sergeant major, working at headquarters and answering only to...

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

Douglas Harper went to Port Hueneme, California and was assigned to an ACORN unit. [Annotator's Note: ACORN is an...

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...

[Annotator's Note: Walter Jacobs served in the Army as a squad leader in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 306th Infantry...

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