Posted by Dean on December 07, 2010 at 08:17:41 from (68.46.208.21):
In Reply to: Dec. 7, 1941 posted by Doug Boll on December 07, 2010 at 07:29:37:
Never forget.
My mother a young Iowa farm girl two years out of nursing school joined the Army and was sent to the south pacific to join MacArthur's Army. She served three years in Australia, New Guinea and the Philippines.
My father, at 37 was rejected by the Navy when he tried to enlist due to his age. He had been with GM for two years after GM bought the automotive radio operations of Crosley Radio where he had been working.
GM asked for unmaried civilian volunteers to serve overseas with the war department as civilian technical representatives. My father volunteered, was trained in the then high tech Detroit Diesel engines and sent overseas to help the Navy maintain the millions of Detroit Diesel engines that they were buying.
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