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

Robert Powers enjoyed World War 2 more than the Korean War. He had a reason to go in the first war and he enjoyed the...

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....

Firman Balza was transferred off the ship on 7 April 1944, and watched the Maryland [Annotator's Note: USS Maryland (BB...

Traveling back to the United States, Joe Clapper said they had a mixed complement aboard ship; there were many Navy...

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

[Annotator's Note: Robert J. Ferris was pilot in Marine Torpedo Bombing Squadron 232 (VMTB-232) and took part in combat...

Leaving Okinawa, Robert Knudson shipped back to San Diego, California in the fall of 1945, then got a 30 day leave. His...

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

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

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

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