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Diary of Earl Dennis (Outline, transcription and scan)

Diary kept by Earl L. Dennis grew up outside of Coopersville, Michigan. He was drafted into the Army in April, 1942, at the age of 29. He trained at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, and was then stationed in Groton, Connecticut, where he became a cook for a fighter squadron 65th Fighter Squadron, 57th Fighter Group, 9th Army Air Force. He shipped out from New York and sailed around Africa to Egypt, where his unit supported the British 8th Army from the Second Battle of El Alamein through the conquest of Tunisia. They then went to Malta and supported the invasion of Sicily, and then went on to bases on Sicily. His diary covers his time in the service through the Sicilian campaign.

Both the scanned version of the diary and a transcription are provided, with an outline acting as a table of contents.

John Bennitt Civil War Diary, volume 2

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• Text: ...ary 23 Weather very fair mild & pleasant. 23 Mo. Reg’t ordered to Murfreesboro to relieve 33rd Ind. which goes home as veterans.— 23rd Mo started about 1 P.M. Officers tarried to have a spree &c.— Commissary sent in abstracts of Issues to Hospitals which were very imperfectly ...

John Bennitt Civil War diary, volume 1

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• Text: ...ary 23 Weather very fair mild & pleasant. 23 Mo. Reg’t ordered to Murfreesboro to relieve 33rd Ind. which goes home as veterans.— 23rd Mo started about 1 P.M. Officers tarried to have a spree &c.— Commissary sent in abstracts of Issues to Hospitals which were very imperfectly ...