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Traveling back to the United States, Joe Clapper said they had a mixed complement aboard ship; there were many Navy...

After the invasion of Okinawa, Japan and the dropping of the atomic bombs, Joseph Richard was eligible for discharge,...

Carl Rieman said if the planes could have carried more ammunition, he could have gotten more enemy kills. The Japanese...

George A. Damiano was ordered to pick up the dead Japanese [Annotator's Note: on Okinawa, Japan], but he refused to do...

Representatives from each camp were taken to Okinawa for a meeting to determine the best way to get the American...

Paul J. Murphy [Annotator’s Note: a fire controlman aboard the USS Indianapolis (CA-35)] sailed to San Francisco [...

Jack Gutman said the flashbacks would come when he went to bed, and the memories were magnified: the invasions, the...

Charles Watkins Adair [Annotator's Note: with the 2nd Combat Cargo Group, 5th Air Force] had a close call at Nichols...

Following the war's conclusion, Claude Taylor sailed aboard LSM-352 [Annotator's Note: LSM stands for Landing Ship,...

The Marines knew they would be getting into a yellow jacket's nest if they had to invade Japan. When the war ended,...

Still in the Philippines, Clem Thrift's ship [Annotator's Note: the USS Holt (DE-706)] moved on to bombarding the...

Dupuy and his flight were coming back from Kyushu [Annotators Note: Japanese main island]. One of their pilots had...

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