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[Annotator’s Note: Talking and other noises are audible in the background of this segment.] After the Americans secured...

Socrates Dendrinelis remembers the kamikazes [Annotator's Note: Japanese suicide bombers] hitting the ships. It made a...

While on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of Okinawa, 1 April to 22 June 1945; Okinawa, Japan], Kenneth...

Harry Bender was discharged from the Marine Corps in June 1946. His friend, William "Bill" Laden [Annotator's Note: US...

Edwin Lamm was assigned to the Air Transport Command at Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Base [Annotator's Note: now Travis...

Melvin C. Whitman had to figure out how to work with the Army when he landed on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of...

Charles “Chuck” Franzke’s orders were changed after the Japanese surrendered [Annotator’s Note: announced 15 August...

Stewart Bass was excited and nervous to fly his first combat mission. He soon calmed down, followed his training and...

Louis Andriano's DD-214 [Annotator’s Note: Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty] states that he was on...

For Kenneth Dwight Wells, the most difficult part of fighting against the Japanese on Okinawa [Annotator's Note:...

Charles Wesley Borders heard about Roosevelt's [Annotator's Note: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the...

[Annotator's Note: Ed Kough refers to a paper for dates and holds it up in front of his face throughout the segment.]...

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