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Photograph, portrait. General Jacob L. Devers, Commander of U.S. Army Ground Forces. Official Caption: "Rome 7/2/45--...

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

Photograph. Port occupied by American troops; Wooden poles are in a clearing in the foreground. Presumably Okinawa,...

Photograph. Soldiers Posing Outside Sandbagged Bunker on Okinawa.

The first time William J. Twigger took fire from the Japanese was on 18 May [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of...

Jack Houston returned to the United States around May 1946. He was discharged at the end of May or beginning of June in...

The first move Peter Gallo made with the unit [Annotator's Note: 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division] was to...

Sidney Philips remembers being in San Diego for two weeks [Annotators Note: after returning from his combat tour in the...

William Pierce remembers a buddy being wounded on Okinawa. It was the same buddy who had fired a shot erroneously and...

Allen Horton was called back to Navy headquarters in New York to pick up a Silver Star. The citation was for his work...

Robert Riddle was at Okinawa when the atomic bombs were dropped. His crew, on hearing of the surrender, was a little...

[Annotator's Note: Howard Warren Stokes served in the 27th Infantry Division. Soon after the war's end, he was sent...

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