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Jones, Adam (Interviewer)

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Schaffer, Harold

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2015-06-02

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Harold Schaffer was born on February 3, 1925 in Flint, Michigan. After graduating from high school in June 1943 he received his draft notice on July 23, 1943 and reported for active duty on August 12, 1943. He was processed at Fort Custer, Michigan and got assigned to the Army Air Force. He was sent to Amarillo Army Air Field, Texas for basic training and got selected for ordnance training. He trained in Augusta, Georgia and was assigned to an ordnance-maintenance company, then trained in Jackson, Mississippi and Aberdeen, Maryland. He deployed out of San Francisco, California on August 1944 and arrived at Biak in September 1944. His ordnance-maintenance company serviced the ground vehicles used by the Army Air Force and endured mosquitos, intense heat, and bombings from the Japanese. After about a year they moved up to the Philippines and got stationed at Clark Field. Near the end of the war they were sent to Nichols Field near Manila and stayed there through the end of the war. In February 1946 he returned to the United States and was discharged at Fort Sheridan, Illinois.

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Veterans History Project collection, (RHC-27)