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After Okinawa, James Odom went back to Guam. They heard a "message to all ships" about the signing of the peace treaty...

Leo William Schmittgens remembered after all the firing ceased [Annotator's Note: after a firefight during the Battle...

From China, the USS Balduck (ADP-132) took Donald Dean and the rest of the crew back to Okinawa, then to Hawaii,...

David Harvey engaged kamikazes at Okinawa, Tokyo, and Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Japan]. The skipper [Annotator's Note...

Murphy Burke had been gone for two years when he got his first leave in April 1945. While overseas he had stayed in...

Ricardo R. Rondinelli and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 47th Bombardment Squadron, 41st Bombardment Group, Seventh Air...

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

Having participated in several amphibious landings as a combat swimmer, Robert Judd discusses that after their initial...

Albert Reale thought the Japanese were miserable people, and seeing the surviving soldiers from Okinawa reinforced his...

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...

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

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