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Podcast: Veterans Chronicles
Episode: PHM2 Charles Cram, U.S. Navy Corpsman, World War II, Iwo Jima
Description: Charles Cram was 15 years old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Before he was old enough to join the military, he worked as a messenger and received word of an alleged Japanese attack on the west coast of the U.S. When he was 17, Cram joined the service. After boot camp he was assigned to corpsman training. Before long he was off to the Pacific and would see his first combat as an 18-year-old corpsman on Iwo Jima.In this edition of Veterans Chronicles, Cram tells about his corpsman training, intense simulated invasions on the coast of California...