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Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

William Pierce never fired a rifle until he was in the Marine Corps. He became a marksman and then an expert rifleman....

Howard Fox sailed on the USS Catoctin (AGC-5) through the Panama Canal to the west coast and Hawaii. He rode out the...

Perrett was awarded the European Campaign Ribbon [Annotator's Note: Europe/Africa/Middle East Theater Ribbon] with two...

For Charles Balaza, flights of American planes over the prison camp foretold the oncoming victory. The end was near....

Curtis Brooks was aboard a transport aircraft after being liberated from the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila,...

After Richard Jaccarino was released from the hospital, he was sent to a replacement depot on Saipan, and within a...

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

When Mack was going into Okinawa in the Higgins boat, he claims he had a vision. It was a vision of his mother. His...

David Oreck guesses he was on between five and ten missions as a navigator on a B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29...

John E. Johnson's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Liddle (APD-60)] stayed in China for a few weeks, mostly for rest and...

Edward Bale began training for the invasion of Japan after the end of the combat on Okinawa. He knew what to expect of...

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