Search results

Map is loading...

Following the war's conclusion, Claude Taylor sailed aboard LSM-352 [Annotator's Note: LSM stands for Landing Ship,...

Jack Gutman said the flashbacks would come when he went to bed, and the memories were magnified: the invasions, the...

Traveling back to the United States, Joe Clapper said they had a mixed complement aboard ship; there were many Navy...

Bailey continued on. After he passed Naha [Annotators Note: May 1945, Naha, Okinawa] he encountered civilians for the...

The B-29s carrying the second atomic bomb were overhead circling Yawata. The crew of the B-29 carrying the bomb was...

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

Admiral Mitscher [Annotator's Note: US Navy Admiral Marc Andrew "Pete" Mitscher] was aboard Warren Nolan's ship [...

Dale Peterson's battlestation on the USS San Juan (CL-54) was a five inch 38 caliber gun mount that had a seven man...

George A. Damiano recalls that the local population [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan] was happy to have the...

After Arthur Jackson got back to the United States [Annotator's Note: after being wounded during the Battle of Okinawa...

Among his other responsibilities, Robert Gurr managed several newspaper routes during World War 2. As a paperboy, he...

After Okinawa, James Odom went back to Guam. They heard a "message to all ships" about the signing of the peace treaty...

Oral History