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Leo William Schmittgens was finally able to return home [Annotator's Note: after seven months of occupation duty in...

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

Dale LeBlanc had been through Naha many times as a runner. Every time he went through there snipers would shoot at him...

Jack Thornhill and the interviewer have just been reminiscing. He can remember things that happened to him when he was...

Connick and the USS Lander [Annotator's Note: APA-178] brought supplies to Naha Beach on Okinawa. At one point they...

Fernando Serna was liberated from a prisoner of war camp after the war. He was treated by doctors and nurses following...

Kerama Retto [Annotator's Note: Kerama Islands off of Okinawa] was used as a staging area for the destroyers going out...

William Pierce never fired a rifle until he was in the Marine Corps. He became a marksman and then an expert rifleman....

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

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

William Pierce recounts an instance of Japanese night time infiltration [Annotator's Note: during combat operations on...

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

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