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George Peto had a unique experience there [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa] one time while watching kamikazes hitting...

Donald Herbert Shown [Annotator’s Note: aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) after damages received from a kamikaze...

David Harvey engaged kamikazes at Okinawa, Tokyo, and Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Japan]. The skipper [Annotator's Note...

Jack Houston returned to the United States around May 1946. He was discharged at the end of May or beginning of June in...

Russell Clay was assigned to the USS Houston (CL-81) which was being completed in Newport News, Virginia. He had his...

Robert Oplinger never had issues other than sunburn from being in the water during his time as a frogman. Some of the...

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

Freeman Dyson was not involved with the Manhattan Project. He was totally surprised at the dropping of the atomic bombs...

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

Philip Schweitzer cannot think of many other lighter moments than the ones he's already mentioned. He remembers one...

Michael Wilford Boos had been with the 74th Station Hospital for three years and when they reached Marina, Pisa in...

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

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