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Photograph. Heavily damaged USS Hazelwood (DD-531) dead in the water after multiple kamikaze attacks. Official caption...

Photograph. 7th Infantry Division soldiers riding in landing craft towards a beach. Official caption on front: "Assault...

War Correspondent Ernie Pyle and Ex-Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey. Dempsey was a commander in the United States...

Photograph. Soldier with Camera on Top of Shinto Shrine on Okinawa.

Photograph. Three Soldiers Posing Outside Hut on Okinawa. Inscription on back reads: "Me, Proctor, and Strivey in front...

William Pierce had steak and eggs before boarding the Higgins Boat [Annotator's Note: Landing Craft Vehicle, Personnel...

Leo William Schmittgens recalled the first day on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945], his regiment [Annotator's...

A typical day for John Caraway consisted of reading and distributing daily dispatches, and receiving and sending coded...

Douglas Harper went to Port Hueneme, California and was assigned to an ACORN unit. [Annotator's Note: ACORN is an...

Paul Amrod joined the Army because his siblings had set the example, and his love of country obliged him to do his part...

Gerry Jones recalls that the Japanese would push the Okinawan [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] natives through the...

The USS Twiggs (DD-591), according to Donald Witmer, was then assigned to Roger Peter 2, a radar picket station, which...

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