Arnold's Story: September 7, 1944

 ETG is the Electronics Training Group of the Signal Corps of the Army Air Force.

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Arnold's Story: April 2, 1944 Cummings

Private Clifford I. Cummings, a classmate from the California Institute of Technology, writes from Camp Crowder, Missouri (now Fort Crowder). Apparently both Cliff and Arnie were extremely keen to see action overseas in the war. ETG probably references the Electronics Training Group at Caltech.

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Arnold's Story: February 12, 1944

February 12, 1944, letter from a Cal Tech pal named "Dix" to Arnie. Parris Island, South Carolina, is a Marine Corps recruit training center. An important ship building company during World War II, Kaiser Shipyards were a cluster of shipyards on the U.S. west coast, mostly around Richmond, California.

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Arnold's Story: November 5, 1943

This is Arnie's first surviving letter to his parents when he was in the army. He write from Camp Kohler, a former migrant farm worker camp, a temporary detention center for interned Japanese Americans in 1942, and by 1943, an Army Signal Corps camp site. Today it is a subdivision of Sacramento.

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