The Itinerant

I was inducted at Fort Devens, on the 12th of January 1944, near Ayer, MA. I was eighteen years old. Then sent to Camp Grant near Rockford, IL, for my basic training. This took 16 weeks. There I celebrated my 19th birthday. This was the same as the infantry except we had no training in the use of firearms. We were instead trained as medical aid ... ................
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