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

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

William Pierce tells the story of his duty on Guam while he was training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands...

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

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...

[Annotator's Note: A woman interrupts interview throughout this segment.] Andrew Petrus returned home [Annotator's Note...

John Cassidy served as an aide to an admiral during his tenure in the Pacific, and the two men got along well. Cassidy...

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

[Annotator's Note: Stanley Richard Williams served in the Navy aboard the mortar ship USS LCI(M)-352 as a signalman and...

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

Jack Glass liked serving aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6). The time he spent on the USS Saratoga (CV-3) was unpleasant...

Artmon Arceneaux worked in construction in Oklahoma for 15 years after his military discharge. He repaired and painted...

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