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Col. Aaron Cunningham, USMC, Iraq, Battle of Fallujah
Aaron Cunningham started thinking seriously about military service after watching Operation Desert Storm unfold in 1991, the year he graduated from h…
1 year, 5 months ago
Cpl Kenneth Wells, USMC, World War II, Okinawa
Kenneth Wells was planning to join the U.S. Navy in World War II but the U.S. Marine Corps recruiter at the office told him he was joining the Marine…
1 year, 6 months ago
Capt. Vincent 'Bill' Purple, U.S. Army Air Corps, World War II
Vincent "Bill" Purple joined the U.S. Army Air Corps following the Japense attack on Pearl Harbor. Like most young men interested in joining the Air …
1 year, 6 months ago
Cpl Frank Wright, USMC, World War II, Hand-to-Hand Fighting on Guam
Frank Wright joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942, when he was just 16 years old. Before long, he became one of the famed Marine Raiders. After deplo…
1 year, 6 months ago
Maj. Gen. Clayton Hutmacher, U.S. Army, USMC, Panama, Iraq, Afghanistan
Clayton Hutmacher enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1978. Six years later he jumped at the chance to go to Army flight school and pursue a career …
1 year, 6 months ago
Cmdr. Porter Halyburton, U.S. Navy, Vietnam, POW Part 2
In the first half of our conversation with retired U.S. Navy Commander Porter Halyburton, we learned about the day he was shot down over North Vietna…
1 year, 7 months ago
Cmdr. Porter Halyburton, U.S. Navy, Vietnam, POW Part 1
Porter Halyburton was born in Florida and grew up in North Carolina. After college, he got married and joined the U.S. Navy with a clear goal of beco…
1 year, 7 months ago
Ron DiFrancesco, 9/11 Terrorist Attack Survivor, World Trade Center
Ron DiFrancesco moved to the New York City area in 2000 to take an investment job with a firm based in the South Tower of the World Trade Center. He …
1 year, 7 months ago
LtCol Rob Riggle, USMC, 9/11, Ground Zero
In 2022, we presented the oral history of U.S. Marine Corps veteran Rob Riggle, who later became famous as an actor and comedian. Riggle told us all …
1 year, 7 months ago
SGT David Rodriguez, U.S. Army, Vietnam
David Rodriguez has a legacy of military service in his family, but his real motivation for joining the Army was to move on from working in the famil…
1 year, 8 months ago