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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
In February of 1943, Kay was teaching in Bucks County, Pennsylvania when the Marine Corps Women Reserves was formed. She thought she would like to be a Marine, so she joined. Her boot camp training was at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. From there she was assigned to attend a Link ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 2008
During World War II Joel had two members of his family in World War II. His father was in the Merchant Marines and his dog was in the Marines.
His dad was an oiler on a tanker. While unloading fuel in North Africa, the ship was struck by a torpedo or ...
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Thursday, September 18th, 2008
For most of the war, Wes was stationed in Naples, Italy in the Finance section of the Army. Here soldiers came to receive their pay, and on occasion, some rather famous people arrived.
One of his fondest memories was the day General Patton arrived at the window requesting $400 to buy a Christmas ...
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Joan was ten years old, growing up in the city of Washington, D. C, during the war. She recalls spending wonderful summer afternoons in the city for just seventy cents. The bus to and from home was three cents, the cream cheese and olive sandwich at People’s Drugs was twenty ...
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
John was one of ten children. He was sixteen in 1946, but many of his siblings were involved in the war. His three older brothers served in World War II.
His brother Andrew joined the Army in October of 1941, just prior to the outbreak of war. The family did not ...
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Monday, September 8th, 2008
While visiting with my good friends Joan and John in Chincoteague, Virginia, recently, I gathered material for several blob entries.
John’s story begins with his father who came to this country from Italy in 1912, and arrived in New York City. Even though he was a trained shoemaker, who actually made ...
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Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Charlie recalls many of his friends from Boston University and their lives since they were in college together, although he wanted to share the story of one classmate, in particular - Dick Fectau.
As Charlie recalls, Dick and another fellow, Jack Downey, were shot down over China and spent twenty years ...
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