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Jack Houston returned to the United States around May 1946. He was discharged at the end of May or beginning of June in...

Bailey had been walking around the ship [Annotator's Note: the ship that was taking him to the invasion of Okinawa]. He...

A year after Raymond Wells was shipped to Okinawa Joyce joined him there. At the time there was very little in terms of...

Ralph Hopkins had a relief man named Ronald Lucas. They worked well with each other. They alternated watches to best...

George A. Damiano was ordered to pick up the dead Japanese [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan], but he refused to do...

Michael Wilford Boos had been with the 74th Station Hospital for three years and when they reached Marina, Pisa in...

Jack Gutman said the flashbacks would come when he went to bed, and the memories were magnified: the invasions, the...

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

The ship Melvin Abadie was assigned to [Annotator's Note: USS Appalachian (AGC-1)] was one of 18 ships that took troops...

Jimmie Dyer entered the service in March 1944 after making a deal with his mother to finish high school. He was sworn...

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

In this segment, Jones remembers that while they didn’t know specifics about the atomic bomb, they knew something was...

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