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

Mickey Montalbano has many good memories of his years in the Navy, and he said that he has never regretted even one day...

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

Following departure from New Georgia, Robert Addison [Annotator’s Note: with the 1st Marine Raider Battalion] reached...

Leo William Schmittgens waited sometime before his ship had arrived for them to leave Okinawa. He helped load the ship...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Houston served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman in 3rd Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion,...

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) after damages received from a kamikaze...

David Harvey engaged kamikazes at Okinawa, Tokyo, and Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Japan]. The skipper [Annotator's Note...

Albert Reale thought the Japanese were miserable people, and seeing the surviving soldiers from Okinawa reinforced his...

Carl Rieman said if the planes could have carried more ammunition, he could have gotten more enemy kills. The Japanese...

Russell Clay was assigned to the USS Houston (CL-81) which was being completed in Newport News, Virginia. He had his...

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

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