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Fernando Serna was liberated from a prisoner of war camp after the war. He was treated by doctors and nurses following...

Jack Skaggs could tell the end of the war was coming by April 1945 when the 7th Fleet wiped out the shipyard in Osaka....

Clem Thrift's last combat assignment was off of Borneo. There was concern because Japanese soldiers were swimming out...

William Pierce tells the story of his duty on Guam while he was training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands...

In this segment, Jones remembers that while they didn’t know specifics about the atomic bomb, they knew something was...

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

Dale LeBlanc had been through Naha many times as a runner. Every time he went through there snipers would shoot at him...

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

Jack Thornhill and the interviewer have just been reminiscing. He can remember things that happened to him when he was...

After the battle of Okinawa, Arnold Addison stayed on the island until the war was over. A few weeks after the war's...

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

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

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