World War, 1939-1945; United States--History, Military; Michigan--History, Military; United States. Army. Camp Edwards; Landing Craft--United States; Boat building--United States; Military life; Soldiers; Photographs
45th Division personnel beaching from Landing craft near Camp Edwards, Massachusetts, 1942.
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Ed Wikander joined the Navy in 1934 and served as a seaman on board the battleship USS Tennessee until leaving the Navy in the middle of 1941. After Pearl Harbor, he was drafted back into the Navy, and spent about two years working at a Marine...