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kats...@gmail.com
May 19, 2013, 7:05:24 PM5/19/13
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Saw a death notice in today's Freep of an 83-year old man, born in Sept. 1929, who "served in the Army Air Corp and was a proud WWII veteran." According to my math, he would have been 16 years old at the end of the war. Is there a "WWII-era" status, like I've seen for Vietnam? Or could this this guy have been just about the youngest WWII vet out there?
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Sarah Ehrett
May 19, 2013, 8:04:40 PM5/19/13
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On Sun, 19 May 2013 16:05:24 -0700 (PDT), kats...@gmail.com wrote:
>Saw a death notice in today's Freep of an 83-year old man, born in Sept. 1929, who "served in the Army Air Corp and was a proud WWII veteran." According to my math, he would have been 16 years old at the end of the war. Is there a "WWII-era" status, like I've seen for Vietnam? Or could this this guy have been just about the youngest WWII vet out there?
My vote goes to a misprint of the Date of Birth. The author may have
>Saw a death notice in today's Freep of an 83-year old man, born in Sept. 1929, who "served in the Army Air Corp and was a proud WWII veteran." According to my math, he would have been 16 years old at the end of the war. Is there a "WWII-era" status, like I've seen for Vietnam? Or could this this guy have been just about the youngest WWII vet out there?
meant 1920 and hit the nine key by mistake. Something along that line.
Otherwise, did the USAAF have mascots? :)
>GO TIGERS
Barry Lewis
May 19, 2013, 8:15:23 PM5/19/13
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On May 19, 8:04 pm, Sarah Ehrett <ninety...@cox.net> wrote:
There were many under the age of 17. According to my late uncle, who
fought in Europe and Germany, he was a master sgt. in charge of a
whole company, and he told me he had at least ten boys, one 15 who
were in his outfit. he asked them how they got in, and they said they
had used phony birth certificates or their brothers birth
certificates.he told me that although young, they were excellent
soldiers. so it did happen. the Army needed men, so they let them
fight.
fought in Europe and Germany, he was a master sgt. in charge of a
whole company, and he told me he had at least ten boys, one 15 who
were in his outfit. he asked them how they got in, and they said they
had used phony birth certificates or their brothers birth
certificates.he told me that although young, they were excellent
soldiers. so it did happen. the Army needed men, so they let them
fight.
Scott Brady
May 19, 2013, 8:25:59 PM5/19/13
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On Sunday, May 19, 2013 6:05:24 PM UTC-5, kats...@gmail.com wrote:
> Saw a death notice in today's Freep of an 83-year old man, born in Sept. 1929, who "served in the Army Air Corp and was a proud WWII veteran." According to my math, he would have been 16 years old at the end of the war. Is there a "WWII-era" status, like I've seen for Vietnam? Or could this this guy have been just about the youngest WWII vet out there?
He'd have only been 15, presuming the date is correct.
> Saw a death notice in today's Freep of an 83-year old man, born in Sept. 1929, who "served in the Army Air Corp and was a proud WWII veteran." According to my math, he would have been 16 years old at the end of the war. Is there a "WWII-era" status, like I've seen for Vietnam? Or could this this guy have been just about the youngest WWII vet out there?
Got a link to the actual item?
danny burstein
May 19, 2013, 10:53:36 PM5/19/13
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In <2a6dc95e-58b2-4037...@googlegroups.com> kats...@gmail.com writes:
>Saw a death notice in today's Freep of an 83-year old man, born in Sept. 19=
>29, who "served in the Army Air Corp and was a proud WWII veteran." Accordi=
>ng to my math, he would have been 16 years old at the end of the war. Is th=
>ere a "WWII-era" status, like I've seen for Vietnam? Or could this this guy=
> have been just about the youngest WWII vet out there?=20
My late mother Wore Army Boots at the tail end of WW-II and
was in Paris (after we had liberated it) at the age of 16.
One day when she got tired she told the (CO?) in her facility
and was soon a member of the 52-50 club back in the States.
- she was a logistical draftsman, helping to figure out
how to get 500 trucks of clean laundry, food, water,
and ammo... to the folk a couple of hundred miles
in the middle of nowhere. Or maybe she held the flipcharts
for the general who was talking to his staff officers...
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Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dan...@panix.com
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>Saw a death notice in today's Freep of an 83-year old man, born in Sept. 19=
>29, who "served in the Army Air Corp and was a proud WWII veteran." Accordi=
>ng to my math, he would have been 16 years old at the end of the war. Is th=
>ere a "WWII-era" status, like I've seen for Vietnam? Or could this this guy=
> have been just about the youngest WWII vet out there?=20
My late mother Wore Army Boots at the tail end of WW-II and
was in Paris (after we had liberated it) at the age of 16.
One day when she got tired she told the (CO?) in her facility
and was soon a member of the 52-50 club back in the States.
- she was a logistical draftsman, helping to figure out
how to get 500 trucks of clean laundry, food, water,
and ammo... to the folk a couple of hundred miles
in the middle of nowhere. Or maybe she held the flipcharts
for the general who was talking to his staff officers...
--
_____________________________________________________
Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
dan...@panix.com
[to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
Sanford Manley
May 19, 2013, 11:00:26 PM5/19/13
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Marine in 1940. He was sunk twice and then joined the US Navy
in 1944 or 1945.
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Sanford
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Kathi
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