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American infantrymen walk across a field toward hills and a distant plume of smoke. Okinawa (probably), 1945.

Landing crafts LCT-1415, LCT-1179 (probably), LCT-1265, and LCT-1049 unload supplies on Yellow Beach while USS LSM-220...

View from the USS Rutland to the USS Bladen after the attack on Okinawa in April 1945; probably in the Ryukyu Islands...

[Annotator's Note: Romus Valtin Burgin served in the United States Marine Corps as a mortar section leader in Company K...

George A. Damiano recalled the weather [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan] being so wet that they had to talk their...

[Annotator's Note: Walter Jacobs served in the Army as a squad leader in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 306th Infantry...

Charles Bruce did not come across any enemy planes or ships out in the open waters [Annotator's Note: while serving...

Fred Wesighan and his unit [Annotator's Note: Headquarters Company, 17th Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division]...

Allen Lamm was concerned for his safety on Okinawa. He did not realize that the splatters in the water were coming from...

Joseph L. Harrison went back to a rear base at Guadalcanal [Annotator's Note: after participating in the retaking of...

Philip Mayer was a sergeant [Annotator's Note: in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division]...

Following the battle of Okinawa, Richard Witaker learned more about Japanese strategies and preparations for the Marine...

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