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The ship Melvin Abadie was assigned to [Annotator's Note: USS Appalachian (AGC-1)] was one of 18 ships that took troops...

Prior to shipping out, Sammy Ray's professor and advisor from Louisiana State University, Doctor Lowry, put him in...

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

The ship that the Laffey relieved had been there a week and never got hit. They got off of the coast of Okinawa on a...

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

James Gaffney discusses transition back into civilian life and his home life with two new children following his return...

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

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

Connick and the USS Lander [Annotator's Note: APA-178] brought supplies to Naha Beach on Okinawa. At one point they...

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

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

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

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