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

Donald Long feels the combat that his father saw in France during World War 1 and that experienced by his brother on...

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

George A. Damiano recalls that the local population [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan] was happy to have the...

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

John E. Johnson's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Liddle (APD-60)] stayed in China for a few weeks, mostly for rest and...

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

They hung around in the area [Annotator's Note: Marvin Perrett and the crew of the USS Bayfield (APA-33), near Okinawa...

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

The Laffey escorted a ship named the Dashing Wave [Annotator's Note: SS Dashing Wave] all the way back to the States [...

The trip overseas for Richard Witaker was difficult because so many of his fellow Marines got seasick on the 31 day...

In preparation for hitting the beaches, Joe Clapper said a soldier's main concern is that he has enough ammunition. He...

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