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Photograph. Japanese prisoners of war being inspected by U.S. Marine. Official Caption: "Rome 8/2/45. JAPANESE...

View of the "Augustin Daly," a US Merchant Marine Ship whose Naval Armed Guard crews earned a Battle Star for the...

Photograph. Ship overturned onto its starboard side; An American military camp is in the background. Presumably Okinawa...

Photograph. The aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain (CV-39) after her launching at an Atlantic coast shipyard. Sailors...

Photograph. Circle of thatched huts surrounded by a short wire fence. Presumably Okinawa, Japan. 1945

During the night the Japanese must have started a push because the ship [Annotators Note: the destroyer USS Evans]...

[Annotator's Note: Robert J. Ferris was pilot with Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) and took part in the...

William Pierce never fired a rifle until he was in the Marine Corps. He became a marksman and then an expert rifleman....

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

Warren Nolan remembers one particular close call around Okinawa. There was an enemy plane coming in from pretty far out...

Deen remembers the fear that was prevalent among the replacements, yet they responded when it was time to fight. He...

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

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