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Edward Riedl shipped out around April 1944. They stopped on Eniwetok [Annotator's Note: Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall...

George A. Damiano recalls that the local population [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan] was happy to have the...

Richard Witaker recognized that the life expectancy of platoon leaders was not very long on Okinawa. The Japanese would...

Ervin Lloyd Rasmussen was in Manila [Annotator's Note: Manila, Luzon, Philippines aboard the USS Butte (APA-68)]...

Ellis Whaley's training had been in engineering. He was given a transit and laid out roads and a cemetery. He had some...

Samuel Ukrop experienced a lot of intense training for Okinawa [Annotator's Note: Battle of Okinawa, codenamed...

One night, as Richard Jaccarino was sleeping under his poncho, the Japanese counterattack began. Just below their...

[Annotator's Note: Orville Bethard served as an Electrician’s Mate aboard the USS St. Lo (CVE-63) which was sunk during...

[Annotator's Note: A woman interrupts interview throughout this segment.] Andrew Petrus returned home [Annotator's Note...

Although in retrospect Holly Rees thinks he may have been naive, he felt certain that his battlefield career was over...

During their return to the United States, John Nicholas and the crew of the Gayety [Annotator's Note: USS Gayety (AM-...

Charles J. Alvarez Sr. was assigned to the USS Guam (CB-2) as a fireman in June 1944. His crew got along well together...

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