| Okinawa |
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"We lost a lot of men that day..."
Donald M. Carlton's story |
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"...I felt like it was an honor to serve my country, according to the dictates of my conscience."
Desmond Thomas Doss' story |
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"You really don't realize how destructive war is until you really see it."
Tony Fileff 's story |
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"The smell of death … is something that stays with you for a lifetime."
James Mitsuo Furukawa's story |
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"Veterans should not be mute about history. It breeds blind generations of destructive dreamers who have learned nothing ..."
Carl Albin Hall's story |
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"Bullets are flying in all directions… you [can] hear them but you don't know which way they're going."
Ralph B. Johnson's story |
| Concentration Camp Liberation |
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"It looked like an explosion or an earthquake in a cemetery."
James Ray Clark's story |
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"This is what hell is like. In my mind I imagined the devil himself coming up out of the ground."
James Frank Dorris, Jr.'s story |
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"At the time of her capture, she had spoken seven languages, and here she was, just worried about getting her food."
Vera Cecelia Palmer's story |
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"My feeling was to get those ovens shut down."
Robert M. Walker's story |
| V-E Day |
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"Here we were in the middle of Germany, with the war over—our job done."
Paul R. Allen's story |
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"They invited all of the troops—American British, French—to march in full uniform."
Isabelle V. Cook's story |
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"...I had driven through Rheims the day that General Jodl was signing the surrender documents, and I didn't even know it."
John Ernest Dolibois' story |
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"We were scared to go out the gate because the women were waiting for us. A lot of us got our clothes ripped off."
Ed Goodwin's story |
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"Truman was giving his speech about the war being over and suddenly the German planes came over..."
Edward Wallace Hopkins' story |
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"We looked in [and] could see the German and Italian prisoners of war sitting down at the same table with white soldiers..."
Walter Morris' story |
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"... it was interesting to note the different reactions of the German and Dutch people."
Charles R. Remsburg, Jr.'s story |
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"There was a combination of solemn gratitude along with jubilant celebration."
Arthur B. Scattergood's story |
| USS Indianapolis |
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"We tried to all gather in the water and keep ourselves together where the sharks wouldn't get us."
Louis Harold Erwin's story
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"I didn't want to end up in the belly of some shark and neither did the other guys."
Giles G. McCoy's story |
| V-J Day |
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"I knew all about the atomic bomb two months before it happened, but we didn't know what we knew."
Robert Llewellyn Balfour's story |
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"I did my best under trying circumstances with my parents in the camps."
Yukio Kawamoto's story |
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"We can't have a formal surrender on a general mess table."
Robert G. Mackey's story |
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"...send Land, Sea, and Air personnel into Japan, for the occupation of the Japanese Islands."
Joseph Jefferson Mickey's story |
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"... An announcer cut in on the movie and said the Japanese had surrendered."
Glenn Walter Nelson's story |
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"If we appeared to take death lightly, it was because we had to in order to keep from going crazy."
Glen Harold Wallace's story |
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