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| Military History |
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| 1943 | |
| 2/8 | received draft notice |
| 2/18 | inducted at Bloomington, IL |
| 2/19 | physical exam in Peoria, IL |
| 2/25 | reported to Scott Air Force Base, Belleville, IL,for orientation |
| 3/1 | reported to Fort Sill Military Reservation, OK, for basic training |
| 6/21 | reported to Fort Bragg, NC, for 101st Airborne training |
| 8/30 | reported to Camp Shanks, NY |
| 9/4 | left New York on troop ship |
| 9/15 | arrived Liverpool, England and traveled to Whatcombe Farms for D-Day training |
| 1944 | |
| 5/13 | two weeks in Wales preparing for D-Day invasion |
| 6/1 | aboard ship in English Channel |
| 6/6 | D-Day, Utah Beach, Normandy, France |
| 7/20 | returned to Whatcombe Farms |
| 9/17 | traveled to Aldermaston Airfield for aborted mission into Paris |
| 9/19 | left England aboard CG-4A glider for mission into the interior of France, but shot down near Tilburg, Holland |
| 9/20 | began forced march through Holland |
| 9/28 | boarded boxcar in Utrecht |
| 10/1 | arrived Stalag XII-A near Limburg, Germany |
| 10/10 | left XII-A on train |
| 10/15 | arrived Stalag VII-A at Moosburg - 40 miles from Munich |
| 12/25 | Christmas in a Prisoner of War camp |
| 1945 | |
| 3/25 | moved out of VII-A to boxcar near Munich |
| 4/9 | survived US air strike on Munich while on work detail |
| 4/30 | liberated by US troops |
| 5/6 | flown to Camp Lucky Strike in France |
| 6/1 | left France on USS LeJeune |
| 6/10 | arrived New York and left for Chicago on six-week furlough |
| 6/13 | back home to family in Gridley, IL |
| 7/12 | married in Bloomington, IL |
| 8/28 | left for Miami, then Camp Lee, VA, then Camp Shanks, NY |
| 10/28 | discharged from military at Camp Shanks |
