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Jack Gutman said that because there were so many, the wounded were taken off Okinawa and brought back to various ships...

On 11 June 1945, Kenneth Dwight Wells and his company [Annotator's Note: Company F, 2nd Battalion, 29th Marine Regiment...

Richard Witaker landed on Red Beach 2 on Easter Sunday, April Fool's day of 1945 [Annotator's Note: 1 April 1945]. The...

Allen Horton was commissioned out of midshipmen's school in Chicago, Illinois, and proceeded to Scouts and Raiders...

William J. Twigger joined the remnant of the division [Annotator's Note: he had originally been a member of Company F,...

[Annotator's Note: Walter Jacobs served in the Army as a squad leader in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 306th Infantry...

Richard Witaker experienced much the same climate on Okinawa as he knew at home. There were pine trees and cultivated...

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

Merlin Smith made his way to Okinawa for the real McCoy [Annotator's Note: he was aboard the assault transport ship USS...

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

Introduced to Okinawa through a rubberized topographical map, Richard Jaccarino could see where they would be landing,...

James Gaffney never spotted any Japanese while patrolling Bougainville. They did observe and report a bright light on...

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