Herbert Kohn as a private in the U.S. Army, 1945.

ID: 191 ~ Source: Herbert Kohn ~ Date: 1945
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Kohn started in the Army as a private in 1945, and when he left the reserves in 1972 he had the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

ID: A young man from the shoulders up in uniform with a badge pinned to the left side of his chest.

This file appears in: Joining the Military

By Herbert Kohn
"The day I was eighteen, I was inducted into the military. And I actually became a citizen afterwards, in the military, in a place outside of Jacksonville, Florida, I was sworn into the—as an American citizen. I stayed in the military through…