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Yavenue, Richard Wounded on Saipan and Returning to the Unite States
Richard Yavenue and the 2nd Marine Division continued to advance across the island [Annotator's Note: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands].
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Yeagley, Richard Basic Training to Berlin
After being drafted, Richard Yeagely went to Fort McClellan, Alabama [Annotator's Note: then Camp McClellan in Anniston, Alabama] to the Infan
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Yeagley, Richard Buchenwald and Occupation Duty
Richard Yeagely was at Buchenwald [Annotator's Note: Leipzig-Thekla, subcamp of Buchenwald concentration camp in Leipzig, Germany].
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Yeagley, Richard Closing Thoughts
[Annotator's Note: The interviewer asks Richard Yeagely what his most memorable experience of World War 2 is.] There are so many, and his memo
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Yeagley, Richard Germans Out of Gas
[Annotator's Note: Richard Yeagely served in the Army on an anti-tank gun crew in Anti-Tank Company, 271st Infantry Regiment, 69th Infantry Di
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Yeagley, Richard Postwar Life and Career
[Annotator's Note: Richard Yeagely was part of the Army of Occupation in Europe after the war ended.] They had food and they ate well.
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Yeagley, Richard Prewar Life
Richard Yeagely was born in November 1925 in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He had one brother who was in the Navy.
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Yellin, Jerome "Jerry" Segment 1
Jerry Yellin was born on February 15th, 1924 in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Hillside High School in June of 1941.
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Yellin, Jerome "Jerry" Segment 10
Yellin went to witness the ceremony in 2006. He met a few different Japanese soldiers and American military personnel as well.
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Yellin, Jerome "Jerry" Segment 11
Yellin is not sure if he was fired upon during landings and take offs from Iwo Jima.
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Yellin, Jerome "Jerry" Segment 12
Yellin recalls how he had a close call with a fellow pilot.
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Yellin, Jerome "Jerry" Segment 2
In January 1944, Yellin was sent to Thunderbird Field in Arizona. That was where he took his primary training.