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John McCarthy reached Pearl Harbor on his ship [Annotator’s Note: the repair ship USS Laertes (AR-20)]. They waited...

Fiske Hanley II, a Special Prisoner of the Kempeitai [Annotator's Note: Kenpeitai, also called Kempeitai; military...

Allen Lamm returned to the United States from his duty protecting convoys on a patrol craft [Annotator's Note: Lamm had...

Sterling Mace and his company [Annotator's Note: Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division]...

Tenney did not believe the photo he saw of the Japanese soldier in Hollywood star and started laughing at it. The...

The Marines knew they would be getting into a yellow jacket's nest if they had to invade Japan. When the war ended,...

Following the war's conclusion, Claude Taylor sailed aboard LSM-352 [Annotator's Note: LSM stands for Landing Ship,...

Still in the Philippines, Clem Thrift's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] moved on to bombarding the...

Dupuy and his flight were coming back from Kyushu [Annotators Note: Japanese main island]. One of their pilots had...

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

Richard Witaker faced many hardships on Okinawa. Troops suffered from fatigue resulting from tension and lack of sleep...

While approaching Wana Draw on Okinawa, George Peto noticed some movement in the brush off to his left. He realized...

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