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Lejeune, Lawrence Enlistment and Training
Lawrence John Lejeune did not want to be drafted because of the limitation of your choice, and he became interested in the Merchant Marine because
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Lejeune, Lawrence Merchant Marine Troubles
Lawrence John Lejeune was a Merchant Marine sailor who had just returned to New Orleans, Louisiana after his first deployment.
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Lejeune, Lawrence Reaction to Pearl Harbor and Rationing
On 7 December 1941, Lawrence John Lejeune had just come out of a movie when he found out that the Japanese had attacked Pearl Harbor.
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Lejeune, Lawrence Reflections
Lawrence John Lejeune left the Merchant Marine and returned home. His sister waited for him at the bus stop.
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Lejeune, Lawrence Trip Around Australia and New Guinea
Lawrence John Lejeune was a Merchant Marine sailor on a liberty ship [Annotator's Note: a class of quickly produced cargo ship] heading for Au
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Lemme, Thomas Becoming a Marine
Thomas Joseph Lemme teamed up with a fellow named John Prentice Brown [Annotator's Note: Lemme was drafted into the United States Marine Corps
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Lemme, Thomas Early Life
Thomas Joseph Lemme was born in January 1926 in Albany [Annotator's Note: Albany, New York]. He had two older brothers and one older sister.
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Lemme, Thomas Hospital Stay and Postwar
Thomas Joseph Lemme remained in recovery in the hospital until the end of the war [Annotator's Note: he had been wounded by a Japanese grenade
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Lemme, Thomas Iwo Jima
Thomas Joseph Lemme went directly from Hawaii to Iwo Jima [Annotator's Note: Iwo Jima, Japan with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 25th Infantry Regi
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Lemme, Thomas Reflections
Thomas Joseph Lemme always felt he could keep up with the other Marines while he was in service. Training was not bad, but he did not like hiking.
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Lengsfield, Jack Bombing Mission to Berlin
Early on 24 March [Annotator's Note: 24 March 1945], Jack Lengsfield was called into a briefing on what was to be the longest mission of the E
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Lengsfield, Jack Considerations
Jack Lengsfield says that although he thought about the moral implications of bombing cities, he had no qualms and those thoughts were never a dete