World War II -- Okinawa Shore Leave
Recorded
November 29, 2019
Archived
November 29, 2019
04:26 minutes
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Id:
APP2086119
Description
Harry S. Scott, born January 1922 and one of the last surviving veterans of WWII, tells a story of late in the war. He was an ensign and then LTJG aboard the Y.M.S. 387 (yard minesweeper) off Okinawa in 1945, right after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, and a severe storm was forecast for the island....Participants
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Harry Scott
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Randy Scott