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Clem Thrift's last combat assignment was off of Borneo. There was concern because Japanese soldiers were swimming out...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

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

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

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

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

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

George Peto has kept numerous photographs and documents from and regarding the war and shared them with interviewer....

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

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

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

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

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