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Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

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

David Oreck guesses he was on between five and ten missions as a navigator on a B-29 [Annotator's Note: Boeing B-29...

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

The first time William J. Twigger took fire from the Japanese was on 18 May [Annotator's Note: during the Battle of...

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

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Paul J. Frisco and the USS Cushing (DD-797) were part of Task Group 38.2 under Admiral...

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

Ricardo R. Rondinelli and his unit [Annotator’s Note: 47th Bombardment Squadron, 41st Bombardment Group, Seventh Air...

William Pierce had good duty for the six or seven months that he was in China [Annotator's Note: serving occupation...

Richard Candelaria was set to Camp Lucky Strike in Le Havre, France. He had been accustomed to his accommodations prior...

George Peto had a unique experience there [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa] one time while watching kamikazes hitting...

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