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[Annotator's Note: Arthur Jackson served in the US Marine Corps as an automatic rifleman in Company I, 3rd Battalion,...

Richard Witaker had a memorable experience after the campaign for Okinawa was over and the island was declared secured...

John Edmund Murman, assigned to the USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103), left Pearl Harbor [Annotator’s Note: Pearl Harbor,...

Murphy Burke had been gone for two years when he got his first leave in April 1945. While overseas he had stayed in...

During the night the Japanese must have started a push because the ship [Annotators Note: the destroyer USS Evans]...

When Mack was going into Okinawa in the Higgins boat, he claims he had a vision. It was a vision of his mother. His...

Ralph Hopkins and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Louisville (CA-28)] left China for Okinawa. From there, the ship...

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

Deen remembers the fear that was prevalent among the replacements, yet they responded when it was time to fight. He...

[Annotator's Note: Stanley Richard Williams served in the Navy aboard the mortar ship USS LCI(M)-352 as a signalman and...

Carroll George felt extremely safe [Annotator's Note: in his general quarters station in the engine room aboard the USS...

William Pierce never fired a rifle until he was in the Marine Corps. He became a marksman and then an expert rifleman....

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