Charles Wochna letters [1953]-1954 Wochna, Charles letters

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Charles Wochna letters [1953]-1954 Wochna, Charles letters

This collection is made up of 27 letters that Lieutenant Charles Wochna wrote to his parents while serving with the United States Marine Corps in Korea and Japan during the Korean War.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6391986

William L. Clements Library

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United States. Marine Corps

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The U.S. Marine Corps was established on November 10, 1775. From the description of Papers, 1933-1945. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 754107146 The history of the Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers dates from 1942-1945. In 1942, a white man by the name of Phillip Johnston, who had lived on a Navajo reservation for many years of his life, conceived an idea that he thought might help the war. He believed that the Navajo language, a verbal, rarely-written language, coul...

Wochna, C.

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Lieutenant Charles Wochna served with Company B of the 1st Marine Corps Division in Korea during the Korean War. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. Wochna, lived in Cleveland, Ohio. Wochna had at least one sister, who married and had children before the war, and a brother, Jerry. From the guide to the Charles Wochna letters, Wochna, Charles letters, [1953]-1954, (William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan) ...

Wochna, Charles.

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United States. Marine Corps. Marine Division, 1st

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