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A year after Raymond Wells was shipped to Okinawa Joyce joined him there. At the time there was very little in terms of...

David Yoho remembers the huge fleet off Okinawa and the explosion of an ammunition ship. It had been attacked by a...

The air raid sirens that would warn the ships of incoming kamikazes kept the men up day and night. Psychologically it...

Following the war's conclusion, Claude Taylor sailed aboard LSM-352 [Annotator's Note: LSM stands for Landing Ship,...

Jack Skaggs could tell the end of the war was coming by April 1945 when the 7th Fleet wiped out the shipyard in Osaka....

After Okinawa, John Nicholas and the USS Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-239)] were sent to sweep for mines in...

[Annotator's Note: A woman interrupts interview throughout this segment.] Andrew Petrus returned home [Annotator's Note...

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

William Pierce tells the story of his duty on Guam while he was training for the invasion of the Japanese home islands...

Jack Gutman said the flashbacks would come when he went to bed, and the memories were magnified: the invasions, the...

Herman Prager was awarded the enlisted man's silver dolphin pin for submarine qualification, the Submarine Combat pin...

Admiral Mitscher [Annotator's Note: US Navy Admiral Marc Andrew "Pete" Mitscher] was aboard Warren Nolan's ship [...

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