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George A. Damiano recalled the weather [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan] being so wet that they had to talk their...

George Joseph Bertucci and the USS Mississippi (BB-41) were first attacked by Japanese suicide aircraft in the Lingayen...

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

They would get up at four in the morning on Pavavu. They were in King (K) Co. 3-1 [Annotators Note: K Company, 3rd...

Howard Fox sailed on the USS Catoctin (AGC-5) through the Panama Canal to the west coast and Hawaii. He rode out the...

Jack Glass liked serving aboard the USS Enterprise (CV-6). The time he spent on the USS Saratoga (CV-3) was unpleasant...

Dupuy and his flight were coming back from Kyushu [Annotators Note: Japanese main island]. One of their pilots had...

Dale Peterson's battlestation on the USS San Juan (CL-54) was a five inch 38 caliber gun mount that had a seven man...

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

After Okinawa, James Odom went back to Guam. They heard a "message to all ships" about the signing of the peace treaty...

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

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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