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Dale LeBlanc had been through Naha many times as a runner. Every time he went through there snipers would shoot at him...

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...

Jack Thornhill and the interviewer have just been reminiscing. He can remember things that happened to him when he was...

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

Allen Tillery left Tinian in late December 1944 and was sent to Guam. When he got there he was assigned to the Japanese...

They proceeded to Samar to the repair base. The boats had already begun to be renovated because they had been assigned...

One night the men were on a 100 percent alert. Robert Akins was manning the 37mm antitank gun. Around two in the...

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

Clem Thrift's last combat assignment was off of Borneo. There was concern because Japanese soldiers were swimming out...

In this segment, Jones remembers that while they didn’t know specifics about the atomic bomb, they knew something was...

After the battle of Okinawa, Arnold Addison stayed on the island until the war was over. A few weeks after the war's...

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