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Photograph. United States Army tank firing a flamethrower at Japanese forces. Official caption on front: "Burning out...

Photograph. A grave on the side of a road covered in rough concrete and a large stone; the stone has two plaques; one...

Photograph. Debris covering the damaged deck of the USS Nevada (BB-36) after a kamikaze attack. Official caption on...

Photograph. U.S. Rear Admiral Frederick C. Sherman (left) receiving a report aboard an aircraft carrier from a fighter...

Martha Tolles went to Florida in June [Annotator’s Note: of 1944] with her husband. They got a month off and went back...

Harry Walker Wellford attended the Navy V-12 program [Annotator’s Note: V-12 US Navy College Training Program, 1943 to...

When Charles Womack and the other Marines in his outfit [Annotator's Note: Company M, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine...

Life on the ship was boring. Raymond A. Reed was on 15 different ships in 35 different countries. He was a lucky Seabee...

Sterling Mace did not like Okinawa. He could never see the enemy. They were so far away that it seemed to him that it...

[Annotator's Note: Jack Houston served in the US Marine Corps as a rifleman in 3rd Platoon, Company G, 2nd Battalion,...

Thomas Francis Schicker knows there is a lot he has forgotten to tell. They took Kunishi [Annotator's Note: Kunishi...

Joseph Haines wrote home. The letters were censored. He could not say more than he was doing fine. [Annotator's Note:...

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