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On the road

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Profiles Spring-Summer 2014 HFDFW


 

Bobbie was drafted at the age of 18 towards the end of WWII. He reported for duty on May 16, 1945.

Bobbie was trained as a clerk typist and finally as a maintainer of records on a troop transporter. Since he was in the Army’s transportation core, Bobbie had the distinction of being a soldier assigned to a ship!

His most memorable experience was in October, 1945. He was in Japan and went to Hiroshima, the site of the dropping of the first atomic bomb in August, 1945. He saw the devastation firsthand that happened to the city and its people.

Bobbie was awarded the American Theater, Asiatic-Pacific and the WWII Victory medals.

  

 

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