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

Curtis Brooks was aboard a transport aircraft after being liberated from the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila,...

One night the men were on a 100 percent alert. Robert Akins was manning the 37mm antitank gun. Around two in the...

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

William Pierce recounts an instance of Japanese night time infiltration [Annotator's Note: during combat operations on...

After Arthur Jackson got back to the United States [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Battle of Okinawa...

Edward Bale operated the M4 Medium Tank [Annotator's Note: also known as the Sherman] during World War 2 except when he...

For Charles Balaza, flights of American planes over the prison camp foretold the oncoming victory. The end was near....

[Annotators Note: Robert Freligh served as a TBF and TBM Avenger torpedo bomber pilot in Torpedo Squadron 13, VT13,...

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

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

After Okinawa, James Odom went back to Guam. They heard a "message to all ships" about the signing of the peace treaty...

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