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Norman Sterrie was spotted over the forward elevator just as an explosion below lifted the elevator and him in his TBD...

Richard Witaker recognized that the life expectancy of platoon leaders was not very long on Okinawa. The Japanese would...

[Annotator's Note: Sound and video are choppy at times during this segment.] Joseph H. Sasser Junior [Annotator's Note...

Joseph Fisher was born in January 1925 in Marshall, Texas. He had one brother who was two years older. He went through...

The veterans felt better having other veterans around. When replacements came in Robert Akins knew that they were well...

Earl Wergin was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in May 1927. As a boy, he and his family moved to New York City [Annotator...

There were different concoctions in the C-rations [Annotator's Note: prepared and canned wet combat food] and K-rations...

Clem Thrift went to Norfolk, Virginia for turboelectric training. The ship he helped commission, and on which he...

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Thomas Kolesa to talk about the radar he worked with.] Antiaircraft artillery...

[Annotator's Note: Allen Tillery served in the USMC as a Japanese language specialist. For the campaign in the Marshall...

Robert Lowe was at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and was sent to Palmyra Atoll for two years of guard duty. They took a radar...

David Eugene Turnbull was born in March 1925 in Lincoln, Nebraska. His family moved to Blue Springs, Nebraska where his...

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