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

Allen Tillery left Tinian in late December 1944 and was sent to Guam. When he got there he was assigned to the Japanese...

In preparation for hitting the beaches, Joe Clapper said a soldier's main concern is that he has enough ammunition. He...

Russell Clay found that his wartime experience as a barber in the Navy meant little in transitioning to civilian barber...

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

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Vernon Tweedt to tell him about when he got to the Dachau concentration camp in...

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

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

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

After the war ended with Japan [Annotator’s Note: 15 August 1945], Walter Guyote made a few trips to Japan [Annotator’s...

Warren Schmitt and his ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Savo Island (CVE-78)] participated in five invasions from...

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

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