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Martin Brignac was building an airfield on New Guinea. The work was mostly just leveling the land. On Ie-Shima, Japan,...

After Richard Jaccarino was released from the hospital, he was sent to a replacement depot on Saipan, and within a...

They proceeded to Samar to the repair base. The boats had already begun to be renovated because they had been assigned...

William Pierce never fired a rifle until he was in the Marine Corps. He became a marksman and then an expert rifleman....

Ralph Griffith was moved on a hospital ship from Manchuria to Okinawa and there he ran into friends he knew before the...

Edward Bale began training for the invasion of Japan after the end of the combat on Okinawa. He knew what to expect of...

The first time William J. Twigger took fire from the Japanese was on 18 May [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of...

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

Ralph Hopkins had a relief man named Ronald Lucas. They worked well with each other. They alternated watches to best...

They [Annotator's Note: David Thomason and the other survivors of the USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733) which had been sunk...

John Caraway's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bridge (AF-1)] was anchored in the harbor at Okinawa when he heard about the...

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

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