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

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

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

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

Murphy Burke had been gone for two years when he got his first leave in April 1945. While overseas he had stayed in...

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

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

Richard Witaker faced many hardships on Okinawa. Troops suffered from fatigue resulting from tension and lack of sleep...

They [Annotator's Note: David Thomason and the other survivors of the USS Mannert L Abele (DD-733) which had been sunk...

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

Ralph Hopkins and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Louisville (CA-28)] left China for Okinawa. From there, the ship...

Adolph Wilson and the 5th Marine Division assaulted Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: on 19 February 1945]. The island was...

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