Veteran's History Project: William P. Tracy Jr.

William P. Tracy Jr.

Sergeant First Class

U.S. Army-Air Corp

World War II

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is one of many American Veteran accounts published in The Sidney Sun-Telegraph. The writer, who is from Sidney, is conducting the interviews as part of the Library of Congress' Veterans History Project.

William "Bill: Tracy Jr. was twenty one yrs old when the Selective Service System caught up with him. There was a war goin' on and they wanted him in it. He was a young man trying to find his was in Alaska and Washington State when he was notified by his draft board in northern Colorado.

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