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    612-822-4611

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I Was a Spectator in the Greatest Generation: A history of those persons who contributed to my lifelong endeavors

I Was a Spectator in the Greatest Generation: A history of those persons who contributed to my lifelong endeavors

Wilkerson, H. Lloyd

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral Military History

Publisher Price: $64.00

ISBN10: 1646104846
ISBN13: 9781646104840
Publisher: Dorrance Pub Co Inc
Published: Jun 3 2020
Pages: 422
Weight: 1.67
Height: 1.15 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The 20th Century took H. Lloyd Wilkerson from rural Obion County, TN to the Pacific in WWII and service with some of the greatest military leaders of his time. Prior to his military service, Wilkerson attended Erskine College and completed his degree during the war.

Pearl Harbor was a turning point for Wilkerson. He rushed to the Marine Corps Recruiting station on December 8, 1941 to enlist. His first assignment after boot camp was orderly-driver for Colonel James W. Webb, CO 7th Marines. Their first overseas deployment was British Samoa. At Guadalcanal Wilkerson became a rifleman under the notorious LtCol Chesty Puller. When Marines departed Guadalcanal, Wilkerson was hospitalized in Melbourne for Malaria contracted at Guadalcanal. He was returned to the States for hospitalization. In Pocatello, ID he completed his college degree and met his future wife. Prior to graduation from OCS at Quantico, VA in 1945, Lloyd was in the Marine unit that escorted by train the remains of President Roosevelt to Hyde Park for burial.

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