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While off Okinawa, the USS Wisconsin [Annotator’s Note: USS Wisconsin BB-64] picked up some British POWs, which were...

During the night the Japanese must have started a push because the ship [Annotators Note: the destroyer USS Evans]...

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

[Annotator's Note: Romus Valtin "R.V." Burgin served in the United States Marine Corps as a mortar section leader in...

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

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

Carl Rieman said if the planes could have carried more ammunition, he could have gotten more enemy kills. The Japanese...

Robert Oplinger never had issues other than sunburn from being in the water during his time as a frogman. Some of the...

Representatives from each camp were taken to Okinawa for a meeting to determine the best way to get the American...

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

Russell Clay was assigned to the USS Houston (CL-81) which was being completed in Newport News, Virginia. He had his...

Freeman Dyson was not involved with the Manhattan Project. He was totally surprised at the dropping of the atomic bombs...

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