"Last night we had a party at the club. Seeing all the other fellows dancing and having a good time with their girls made me so darn lonesome and homesick for you that I just up and left." Letter from Herbert Johns, March 18, 1944
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Clare Marie Morrison Crane
Clare Crane on her wedding day with Herbert G. Johns at Our Lady of Angels Church May 29, 1943 [detail]
War: World War, 1939-1945 Service Location: Cleveland, Ohio Status: Civilian Place of Birth: OH
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.