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Murphy Burke had been gone for two years when he got his first leave in April 1945. While overseas he had stayed in...

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

Ralph Hopkins and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Louisville (CA-28)] left China for Okinawa. From there, the ship...

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

After Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Battle of Iwo Jima, 19 February to 26 March 1945; Iwo Jima, Japan], Adolfo V. Celaya...

[Annotator's Note: Arthur Jackson served in the US Marine Corps as an automatic rifleman in Company I, 3rd Battalion,...

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

Philip Schweitzer cannot think of many other lighter moments than the ones he's already mentioned. He remembers one...

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

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

Monroe Scherer took advantage of the G.I Bill and went to NYU [Annotator's Note: New York University, New York, New...

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

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