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Louise Settles had to leave the service once she was married. She knew that would happen. Her husband was to leave 20...

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

When Lester Hecht was in Mindanao [Annotator's Note: Mindanao, Philippines], the aircraft he was in charge of always...

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

Philip Mayer was a sergeant [Annotator's Note: in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division]...

Richard Witaker distrusted both civilians and soldiers on the Japanese held island of Okinawa. He once had to remove a...

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

William Wayne says that Iwo Jima, Japan is shaped like a shoe. The part he was on was deep, thick, volcanic ash that...

His duty in the Aleutians lasted for about seven months, after which Thomas Long was sent to Coronado, California for...

Dale Peterson felt the Okinawa campaign to be the most difficult. He was at battle stations 113 times. Fear of death...

When Dale LeBlanc heard the news that the battle [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa] was over he was relieved. One...

Charles Watkins Adair [Annotator's Note: with the 2nd Combat Cargo Group, 5th Air Force] was on the island of Luzon [...

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