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Leo William Schmittgens waited sometime before his ship had arrived for them to leave Okinawa. He helped load the ship...

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

Michael Wilford Boos had been with the 74th Station Hospital for three years and when they reached Marina, Pisa in...

Jimmie Dyer entered the service in March 1944 after making a deal with his mother to finish high school. He was sworn...

The ship Melvin Abadie was assigned to [Annotator's Note: USS Appalachian (AGC-1)] was one of 18 ships that took troops...

Jack Taylor was well pleased flying F6F [Annotator's Note: Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter aircraft] fighter planes. The...

Fernando Serna was liberated from a prisoner of war camp after the war. He was treated by doctors and nurses following...

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

Firman Balza was transferred off the ship on 7 April 1944, and watched the Maryland [Annotator's Note: USS Maryland (BB...

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

In this segment, Jones remembers that while they didn’t know specifics about the atomic bomb, they knew something was...

Richard Witaker faced many hardships on Okinawa. Troops suffered from fatigue resulting from tension and lack of sleep...

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