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THAT'S LIFEBY JULIE 6ERKEjoumal-CourierW~~ ally Kleinschmidt had only traveled as far as St. Louis — to see a baseball game — when he left Scott Field on a troop train and headed west.“I couldn’t get over what a huge country we live in,” Mr. Kleinschmidt, now 73, remembers.But, for two years beginning in 1942, Walter Kleinschmidt called Oregon home, training with the 96th Infantry Division of the U.S. Army,preparing for the invasion ofthe Japanese-held islands in the Philippines.Mr. Kleinschmidt, his wifeBernita, and 27 members of the division will visit the Philippines in October for the 50th anniversary of the 1944invasion.We spent 43 days on ship,” Mr. Kleinschmidt says. “I got up early and went up on deck and looked around. All I could see were ships — there wereVETERAN, see page 12
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Jacksonville Journal Courier
Jacksonville, Illinois, US
Thu, Sep 22, 1994
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