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Having participated in several amphibious landings as a combat swimmer, Robert Judd discusses that after their initial...

John Caraway's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Bridge (AF-1)] was anchored in the harbor at Okinawa when he heard about the...

Representatives from each camp were taken to Okinawa for a meeting to determine the best way to get the American...

After leaving Morotai, Theodore Skare and his unit [Annotator's Note: 209th Malaria Survey Unit] went to Clark Field,...

Allen Horton was called back to Navy headquarters in New York to pick up a Silver Star. The citation was for his work...

Sidney Philips remembers being in San Diego for two weeks [Annotators Note: after returning from his combat tour in the...

George Peto has kept numerous photographs and documents from and regarding the war and shared them with interviewer....

Robert Riddle was at Okinawa when the atomic bombs were dropped. His crew, on hearing of the surrender, was a little...

When Warren Schmitt returned from Okinawa, he had to be sent to San Diego for hospitalization. By the time he recovered...

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

Richard Witaker faced many hardships on Okinawa. Troops suffered from fatigue resulting from tension and lack of sleep...

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-...

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