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Clem Thrift's last combat assignment was off of Borneo. There was concern because Japanese soldiers were swimming out...

After Arthur Jackson got back to the United States [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Battle of Okinawa...

George Peto has kept numerous photographs and documents from and regarding the war and shared them with interviewer....

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

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) were first attacked by Japanese suicide aircraft in the Lingayen...

One night the men were on a 100 percent alert. Robert Akins was manning the 37mm antitank gun. Around two in the...

Ralph Hopkins and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Louisville (CA-28)] left China for Okinawa. From there, the ship...

Richard Witaker had a memorable experience after the campaign for Okinawa was over and the island was declared secured...

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

Deen remembers the fear that was prevalent among the replacements, yet they responded when it was time to fight. He...

When Warren Schmitt returned from Okinawa, he had to be sent to San Diego for hospitalization. By the time he recovered...

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served as a TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bomber pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT13,...

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