Donald & Sally Nichols wrote: > > Hi All: > > Yes, I remember a Naval program at Notre Dame during WW 11. It was called > V 8 or V 1 - I do not remember which and when the cadets graduated from > this program they became ensigns in the US Navy. I remember them strolling > in the uptown district of So. Bend when we visited there. My mother had 2 > sisters living in So. Bend so we went there as often as we could what with > gas rationing etc. Bendix and Studebaker were BIG in defense manufacturing > and I am sure there others but do not know who. If it had not been for the > home front being 100% behind the military the outcome might have been > different or the war might have lasted longer. Also, the official date for > the ending of WW 11 was December 31, 1946 and not when the surrender was > signed aboard the USS Missouri. September 2, 1945 was the ending of > military action. Please correct me if I have this information wrong. > > Sally M. Nichols > [email protected] > > ==== INKOSCIU Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE, address your email to [email protected] (or [email protected] if you receive the digest) Yep, I arrived home in Strasburg, Tuscarawas County, Ohio on October 31st 1946 in time to see the Halloween parade in Dover, Ohio but my honorable discharge says December 1946!