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Lewis S. Evans wrote letters to his girlfriend back at school, and there was one time that he did not receive any for...

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

During one of his first combat missions, one of the gunners on David Lehigh's plane panicked. He found out a few...

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

[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Calvin Moore which Pacific islands stand out to him the most.] Okinawa [...

On the 17th of June [Annotator's Note: 17 June 1945 on Okinawa] they moved back off of Kunishi Ridge. A colonel was...

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

Because the war in Europe had begun to die down and the need for additional pilots was decreasing by the time he...

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....

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

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

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