There aren’t many words to describe the sight of a kamikaze plane dropping down onto a ship, Stan Primmer said. “It’s beyond frightening,” the Rockford farmer said of the morning of June 22, 1945, ...
RAHWAY -- On March 31, 1945, the U.S.S. LST-686, a landing ship, pulled into Keise Shima, a handful of small islets a few miles off the coast of Okinawa. William Mele was 19 and had been on the USS ...
FRAMINGHAM – As he peers at a framed photo of the vessel on which he served during the invasion of Iwo Jima, tears well up in the eyes of Stanley Berman and trickle down his cheek. In the distance of ...
On Easter Sunday morning, 1945, Peter Leasca rode aboard a Landing Ship, Tank or LST carrying men and armored vehicles onto the heavily defended beaches of Okinawa just 340 miles from the Japanese ...
In author Stephen C. Stripe's new historic book "Pacific LST 791: A Gallant Ship and Her Hardworking Coast Guard Crew at the Invasion of Okinawa" (published by iUniverse), readers are transported back ...
To Art Crosthwait, 88, of Morgan County, his service in the Pacific Theater in World War II hardly seems real anymore. It has been nearly 70 years since he was part of a force that invaded Peleliu, ...
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