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They would get up at four in the morning on Pavavu. They were in King (K) Co. 3-1 [Annotators Note: K Company, 3rd...

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...

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

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

Dupuy and his flight were coming back from Kyushu [Annotators Note: Japanese main island]. One of their pilots had...

Harry Lockhead knew he would leave Maui bound for the invasion of Japan. Fort Pierce, Florida was set up for UDT [...

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

Martin Brignac was building an airfield on New Guinea. The work was mostly just leveling the land. On Ie-Shima, Japan,...

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

[Annotator's Note: Monroe Scherer survived Typhoon Louise on Okinawa, Japan on 9 October 1945.] Some groups rebuilt the...

Bailey continued on. After he passed Naha [Annotators Note: May 1945, Naha, Okinawa] he encountered civilians for the...

Ralph Griffith was moved on a hospital ship from Manchuria to Okinawa and there he ran into friends he knew before the...

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