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Alfred "Al" Danegger's trip to Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] was very bad. The captain of the ship should...

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

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

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

Nevin Sledge remembers that everything was secretive. One of the generals was killed by a sniper. A Marine general took...

Sam L. Miller reported aboard the USS Edgecombe (APA-164) in San Francisco [Annotator's Note: San Francisco, California...

At war's end, Gerry Jones was on Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Okinawa, Japan] preparing to invade mainland Japan. They...

Fermer Kellogg Annotator's Note: aboard the USS Lenawee (APA-195)] took troops and supplies to shore during the...

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

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

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...

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