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Prior to shipping out, Sammy Ray's professor and advisor from Louisiana State University, Doctor Lowry, put him in...

Philip Schweitzer cannot think of many other lighter moments than the ones he's already mentioned. He remembers one...

On the 16th [Annotators Note: 16 May 1945 on Okinawa] Bailey moved out but got pinned down again and took cover in...

After the battle of Okinawa, Arnold Addison stayed on the island until the war was over. A few weeks after the war's...

Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

Jack Skaggs could tell the end of the war was coming by April 1945 when the 7th Fleet wiped out the shipyard in Osaka....

They would get up at four in the morning on Pavavu. They were in King (K) Co. 3-1 [Annotators Note: K Company, 3rd...

Richard Bennett mentioned that one incident stands out as a proud moment. Out of the 15 PT boats in the squadron [...

Russell Clay found that his wartime experience as a barber in the Navy meant little in transitioning to civilian barber...

[Annotators Note: Frank Guidone served in the US Marine Corps as a member of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion.]When...

Allen Tillery left Tinian in late December 1944 and was sent to Guam. When he got there he was assigned to the Japanese...

Monroe Scherer took advantage of the G.I Bill and went to NYU [Annotator's Note: New York University, New York, New...

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