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

John Laborde was assigned to General MacArthur's [Annotator's Note: US Army General Douglas MacArthur] advance echelon...

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

In February 1945, Salvador Guercia's ship [Annotator's Note: USS Sandoval (APA-194)] transported Marines to Saipan [...

Robert Wolf trained in Louisiana in the summer of 1944. He then went to California to do amphibious training for the...

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

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

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

Emmett Guderian served in the occupation of Japan. He saw the remains of bombed towns. He worked with Japanese on...

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

Paul Bannai interrogated Japanese soldiers and read Japanese documents during the war. When the war ended, Bannai was...

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

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