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George A. Damiano was ordered to pick up the dead Japanese [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan], but he refused to do...

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

Deen remembers the fear that was prevalent among the replacements, yet they responded when it was time to fight. He...

Jack Taylor was well pleased flying F6F [Annotator's Note: Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter aircraft] fighter planes. The...

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

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

Around 21 June 1945, the 1st Marines [Annotator's Note: 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division] were relieved by the...

They got into the base and they stayed and ate. The next morning, they put them on a C-47. There was 2 or 3 other ex-...

They [Annotator's Note: David Thomason and the other survivors of the USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733) which had been sunk...

The Marines knew they would be getting into a yellow jacket's nest if they had to invade Japan. When the war ended,...

Charles Watkins Adair [Annotator's Note: with the 2nd Combat Cargo Group, 5th Air Force] had a close call at Nichols...

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

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