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

George A. Damiano recalled the weather [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan] being so wet that they had to talk their...

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

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) after damages received from a kamikaze...

After the battle of Okinawa, Arnold Addison stayed on the island until the war was over. A few weeks after the war's...

[Annotator's Note: Monroe Scherer survived Typhoon Louise on Okinawa, Japan on 9 October 1945.] Some groups rebuilt the...

Richard Bennett mentioned that one incident stands out as a proud moment. Out of the 15 PT boats in the squadron [...

Philip Schweitzer cannot think of many other lighter moments than the ones he's already mentioned. He remembers one...

In early August 1945, the 321st Bombardment Squad, 90th bombardment group [Annotator’s Note: 321st Bombardment Squadron...

Allen Tillery left Tinian in late December 1944 and was sent to Guam. When he got there he was assigned to the Japanese...

William Pierce remembers a buddy being wounded on Okinawa. It was the same buddy who had fired a shot erroneously and...

The battle ended on June 21st [Annotators Note: On Okinawa in 1945]. The Sixth Marine Division went on to China. Mack...

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