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Jack Skaggs could tell the end of the war was coming by April 1945 when the 7th Fleet wiped out the shipyard in Osaka....

Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

Fernando Serna was liberated from a prisoner of war camp after the war. He was treated by doctors and nurses following...

[Annotator's Note: Robert J. Ferris was pilot with Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) and took part in the...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Houston served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman in 3rd Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion,...

Allen Horton was called back to Navy headquarters in New York to pick up a Silver Star. The citation was for his work...

Warren Schmitt and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Savo Island (CVE-78)] participated in five invasions from...

On Kunishi Ridge on 15 June [Annotators Note: 15 June 1945, Okinawa] Bailey and several other Marines went along the...

Monroe Scherer took advantage of the G.I Bill and went to NYU [Annotator's Note: New York University, New York, New...

The ship that the Laffey relieved had been there a week and never got hit. They got off of the coast of Okinawa on a...

William Pierce had good duty for the six or seven months that he was in China [Annotator's Note: serving occupation...

Richard Candelaria was set to Camp Lucky Strike in Le Havre, France. He had been accustomed to his accommodations prior...

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