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Bailey feels that war should be over with. His division fought the Chinese in North Korea. Young men are fighting today...

Herman Prager was awarded the enlisted man's silver dolphin pin for submarine qualification, the Submarine Combat pin...

From China, the USS Balduck (ADP-132) took Donald Dean and the rest of the crew back to Okinawa, then to Hawaii,...

Allen Tillery left Tinian in late December 1944 and was sent to Guam. When he got there he was assigned to the Japanese...

The trip overseas for Richard Witaker was difficult because so many of his fellow Marines got seasick on the 31 day...

While approaching Wana Draw on Okinawa, George Peto noticed some movement in the brush off to his left. He realized...

[Annotator's Note: Monroe Scherer survived Typhoon Louise on Okinawa, Japan on 9 October 1945.] Some groups rebuilt the...

Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

Richard Witaker faced many hardships on Okinawa. Troops suffered from fatigue resulting from tension and lack of sleep...

Donald Long feels the combat that his father saw in France during World War 1 and that experienced by his brother on...

Adolph Wilson and the 5th Marine Division assaulted Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: on 19 February 1945]. The island was...

Still in the Philippines, Clem Thrift's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] moved on to bombarding the...

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