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

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

Richard Witaker felt hatred for the Japanese before the assault of Okinawa. The feelings had begun with the surprise...

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

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

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

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

[Annotator's Note: Ed Kough refers to a paper for dates and holds it up in front of his face throughout the segment.]...

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

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...

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

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