Clare Marie Crane |
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Clare Crane on her wedding day with Herbert G. Johns at Our Lady of Angels Church May 29, 1943 [detail] | World War II, 1939-1946
Cleveland, Ohio
Civilian
Cleveland, OH
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Like many women in wartime, Clare Johns cherished her husband's letters home--they had been married only five months before he shipped out to England as a communications officer. As the war in Europe wound down, Herbert received orders to move to the Pacific Theater, but he never made it. A physical exam revealed that he had leukemia; the Army tried to bring him home, but he died en route, in a hospital in Newfoundland, only 10 days after his initial diagnosis.
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