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When the Marines were about half way down Okinawa the Japanese got around behind them. Robert Akins and some of his...

Thomas Lusco Sr. had a difficult time returning home. He would shake in bed at night. He slept in a different bed from...

Near the end of the war, while the 11th Airborne [Annotator's Note: 11th Airborne Division] was flown to Okinawa [...

Returning to the United States, Vaughn Whitworth was offered a promotion to reenlist. He had had enough and went home....

Theodore Wessen and the USS Pirate (AM-275) went to Guam after that island had been recaptured by the United States....

Before going out on duty at Picket Station Number 1 the men of the Laffey saw all sorts of damage to ships while docked...

Gordon Tadewaldt's most memorable experience of World War 2 was when the USS PGM-1 was caught in a typhoon on their way...

Louis Andriano does not remember celebrating the war ending. They were always the last to know and it made no...

William McCowen signed on to a crew for the Korean War [Annotator's Note: 1950 to 1953] and was sent overseas to Kadena...

Vernon Cummings' first battle station [Annotator's Note: aboard USS Indiana (BB-58)] was below deck in the powder room...

Gerry Jones completed several missions with his partner, Mack [Annotator's Note: unable to verify identity], throughout...

The only help Fiske Hanley remembers getting from the Red Cross while he was overseas was the loan of two books when he...

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