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Charles Watkins Adair [Annotator's Note: with the 2nd Combat Cargo Group, 5th Air Force] had a close call at Nichols...

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

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

For Charles Balaza, flights of American planes over the prison camp foretold the oncoming victory. The end was near....

Edward Bale began training for the invasion of Japan after the end of the combat on Okinawa. He knew what to expect of...

Curtis Brooks was aboard a transport aircraft after being liberated from the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila,...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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