. . George D'Angelo George D’Angelo volunteered for the Air Force after graduating from Duquesne University in 1965. He trained as a fighter pilot and was assigned to the 12th Tactical Fighter Wing at Cam Ranh Air Base in Vietnam, where he flew the F-4 Phantom II fighter-bomber on bombing
. . Lee Corfield When Lee Corfield graduated from high school in 1967, the Vietnam War was heating up and the military needed young men. So Lee wondered when the draft would catch up to him. It was a matter of time before we was ordered into the Army or
. . George Coppola missing image George Copploa volunteered for the Coast Guard in June 1967, never dreaming he’d be sent to Vietnam. After boot camp, he boarded the US Coast Guard Cutter Campbell (WHEC-32) and was part of the Deck Force responsible for maintenance and other duties including manning
. . Lewis Cooke Lewis Cooke of Tionesta, Pennsylvania grew up in Rhode Island. As a young man he was a merchant mariner, but in the mid 60s he was drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War. “That year in Vietnam was the worst of my life,” he says
. . Jack Clouds Jack Clouds of Beaver Falls, PA dropped out of high school. Instead he got a real world education when he signed up for the Army, eventually serving with the legendary 82nd Airborne Division. Jack spent three years in the Army during the early 1960s, just before
. . Joseph Cirelli Reading was very important to Joe Cirelli while growing up in the 1950s. While America launched into the Cold War, and he took a special interest in military history. He had an uncle who served in the Korean War, and he was impressed with the
