Monadnock Ledger-Transcript - Temple man recalls WWII experience
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 11/14/2017 9:41:30 AM The day after the Japanese surprise military strike at an air base in Hawaii in 1941, Arthur Pendleton enlisted in the Marine Corps. “I had an old friend who was elderly at the time and he had been in the Marine Corps. He said that was the fastest way to get into action,” Pendleton said during an interview at his home in Temple on Sunday afternoon. Pendleton was 20 years old at the time. He was just a kid and wasn’t thinking straight, he said. “I thought I was going to save the world,” Pendleton said. The Carolinas: Tra...
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