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[Annotator's Note: A woman interrupts interview throughout this segment.] Andrew Petrus returned home [Annotator's Note...

After the war ended with Japan [Annotator’s Note: 15 August 1945], Walter Guyote made a few trips to Japan [Annotator’s...

[Annotator's Note: Romus Valtin "R.V." Burgin served in the United States Marine Corps as a mortar section leader in...

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

Bailey had been walking around the ship [Annotator's Note: the ship that was taking him to the invasion of Okinawa]. He...

On the 16th [Annotators Note: 16 May 1945 on Okinawa] Bailey moved out but got pinned down again and took cover in...

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...

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

David Yoho remembers the huge fleet off Okinawa and the explosion of an ammunition ship. It had been attacked by a...

William Pierce recounts an instance of Japanese night time infiltration [Annotator's Note: during combat operations on...

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