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When Ira Schilling and his unit [Annotator's Note: Company B, 1st Battalion, 18th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division...

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

Melvin S. Tanenbaum [Annotator's Note: a radioman aboard the USS Leon (APA-48)] was part of the invasion at Okinawa [...

David Lamar Mealor thought the Japanese soldiers were very brutal and treated people inhumanely. The dropping of atomic...

Jimmie Dyer does not recall having any feelings one way or the other against the Japanese at the time, although he...

Henry Bourgeois' first air to air combat was over Bougainville. When the dive bombers went into their dive, the entire...

Albert Simon was in the Philippines. They stayed in pup tents [Annotator's Note: small sleep tents often shared by two...

After all he witnessed in the war, Anthony Costa had no negative feelings toward the Japanese. He was raised with...

Following the Japanese surrender, Jack Skaggs and his fellow POWs [Annotator's Note: prisoner of war] made an American...

John Kelley's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when he took part in liberating the Los Baños Prison Camp [...

Lloyd Guillory's most notable recollection of the war occurred on the day when he thought he was going to die. His...

Describing PT-371 [Annotator's Note: patrol torpedo boat], Richard McEwen said that it had a big "day room" up front,...

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