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"...Signal Corps, in which branch he originally volunteered . . . entered Enlisted Reserve Corps June 1, 1942 in home-town Chicago – active service at Fort Custer, Michigan on March 9, 1943. His schooling took place in Chicago . . . completed somewhat more than two years of college work . . . likes to read, to talk, to think . . . writes poetry . . . loves swimming, fencing, hiking, boating, traveling, and people. . . in civilian life was a postal clerk . . . reflects that it’s a long war from the Aviation Squadron here back through twenty-eight years to the sleepy town of Northport, Alabama, where he came to life."

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featured in “Soldiers you work with...” in The Slip Stream, December 8, 1943

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