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Dale Bates' most memorable experience of World War 2 was a mission off the tip of Okinawa [Annotator’s Note: Okinawa,...

When Sterling Mace experienced a mortar barrage and machine gun fire on Okinawa, he noticed an unoccupied jeep. He took...

When the war ended, they shot all the ammunition to celebrate. Rita Hymel thought that was stupid and told her husband...

[Annotator's Note: Don Daniels was part of a Marine machine gun crew during the Battle of Iwo Jima, Japan.] He says...

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

In September 1947, James T. Lindsey enlisted in the US Army Air Forces to become a pilot. Because of his background in...

There were no jobs when Charles Bruce got out of the service. He got married right away. He met a high school girl and...

[Annotator's Note: Raymond Urban was at Bougainville, Papua New Guinea with Marine Fighting Squadron 212 (VMF-12).] It...

Ray Dennis Irby was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] for two years [Annotator's Note: during the Korean...

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

From Pearl Harbor they were sent to the Pacific [Annotators Note: the crew of the USS Missouri in January 1945] and...

[Annotators Note: Robert Ray Akins served in a special weapons company in the 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division...

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