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George A. Damiano recalls that the local population [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan] was happy to have the...

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

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

When Mack was going into Okinawa in the Higgins boat, he claims he had a vision. It was a vision of his mother. His...

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

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

After leaving Morotai, Theodore Skare and his unit [Annotator's Note: 209th Malaria Survey Unit] went to Clark Field,...

[Annotator's Note: Arthur Jackson served in the US Marine Corps as an automatic rifleman in Company I, 3rd Battalion,...

Forrest Villarrubia found the weather on Guam to be beautiful while he was stationed there after his tour in Leyte. The...

Bailey had been walking around the ship [Annotator's Note: the ship that was taking him to the invasion of Okinawa]. He...

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

They hung around in the area [Annotator's Note: Marvin Perrett and the crew of the USS Bayfield (APA-33), near Okinawa...

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