Steve Radika
Era: World War II
Military Branch: Marines
Steve Radika of Hibbing entered the Marine Corps on March 23, 1944. He was a private 1st class and a light machine gunner and rifleman, in the Pacific Theater from September 1944 to July 1945. He participated in Guadalcanal and the first-wave landing on Okinawa. He was wounded in action twice in April and May of 1945. After the second wound he was unconscious for 5 days and woke up on a hospital ship. He was further hospitalized in Hawaii, later returned to the U.S. and hospitalized in San Francisco. He was discharged on Dec. 20, 1945.
