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Military Memories & Memoirs Free Online Writing Workshop
Hosted by The Muse Writing Center: Write your military memories. It can be therapeutic for you, educational for others. In writing their stories, service members, veterans and their loved ones bear witness to moments of honor, camaraderie, and sacrifice. Writing...
A View from the Tonkin Gulf – Reflections of Michael Kuhne, LT, USN.
A View from the Tonkin Gulf How did I get to the Tonkin Gulf in Vietnam? My mom and dad served in the European Theater of WWII. My dad made patriotism a given. We felt a sacred commitment to defend our nation and the hopes of others around the world. I chose my path...
Merchant Marine, U.S. Army, and U.S. Navy – Harold Wellington
Harold Wellington (in Merchant Marine uniform) served in the Merchant Marine from 1942 to 1946, the U.S. Army in 1948, and the U.S. Navy from 1950 to 1954. He served in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. A Young Man in Vermont joins the Merchant Marines Harold...
Joe Sansosti and the Fiercely Fought, Little-Known Battle of Dai Do
Vietnam Veteran Series - The Battle of Dai Do Joe Sansosti left Brevard High School at 18 to join the Marines. 鈥淢y daddy told my brother, 鈥榯hat dummy doesn鈥檛 even know there鈥檚 a war going on,鈥 he chuckled. 鈥淚 just wanted to do something different.鈥 He arrived in...
We took care of American POWs coming back from the Pacific.
Dorothy Managan's story: 鈥淚 was born on January 5, 1923, in Flushing, New York, and grew up there. World War II was going on in Europe when I was in high school. I graduated in 1941 and went into the three-year hospital program for nursing to get my R.N. at the...
鈥淲e Shall Come 爆料公社 Victorious.鈥
Gattis Ervin Allen (known as G.E.) was born on May 1, 1911, in the town of Marshall (Madison County), North Carolina. He passed away in 1997. Like many of our fathers, my daddy never talked to me about his service in the Pacific in WWII, and I wasn't smart enough to...
Serving in the Coast Guard on Both Coasts
聽John, standing, third from left with his Coast Guard buddies John was in the Coast Guard before and during World War II. When the war started, he was based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His wife-to-be, Laurel Crawford lived in Jacksonville, Florida. They met when John鈥檚...
The Jolly Green Coasties
Submitted by Carl Burkhart[adapted from 鈥楾he Coast Guard at War鈥 by Alex Larzelere] Smoke streamed from an Air Force F-105 Thunderchief as it flew south toward the demilitarized zone separating North and South Vietnam.聽 It was the afternoon of 1 July 1968 when its...
Part 2 of Howard Hamilton Story
Geraldine Hamilton, wife of WWII veteran Howard Hamilton, speaking about her husband鈥檚 capture in WWII: This is from an article in the Pittsburgh (PA) Post-Gazette, May 21, 2000.They鈥檇 been married only three months when Howard Hamilton left. They鈥檇 known each other...
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