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Augustine Royall Turpin

• 1917 - Born September 16 in Richmond, VA
• 1938 - Graduated from Virginia Military Institute
• 1941-1943 - draft deferred due to critical chemical plant construction work
• 1943 - Volunteered for US Navy. Boot training at Newport, Rhode Island
• 1944 - Commisioned Ensign - Hospital Specialist - trained at Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
•           - Stationed with the Maleria and Epidemic Control Unit #17, 3rd Marine Division, at Guam, Marianas
• 1945 - On Iwo Jima for five weeks, then back to Guam
•           - Promoted to LT(jg). Returned to USA at San Diago CA. 
• 1946 - US Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD for treatment of knee injury
•           - released from active duty
• 1948-1953 - Civil Engineering Corps, US Naval Reserve

Carter Mosby Turpin

• 1923 - Born October 21 in Richmond, VA
• 1943 - Drafted into US Army, Basic Training at Camp Buttner, NC
• 1944 - Army Air Force Aerial Gunnery School, Miami Beach FL
•           - In action with 78th Division in France as Machine Gun Section Leader
•           - Staff Sargent, 'D' Company, 2nd Batallion, 310th Regiment
• 1945 - Wounded in action - 6 weeks in hospital, Cherbourg
•           - Occupation duty with 78th Division at Kassel. Germany
• 1946 - Returned to USA and was honorably discharged
• 1947 - 2nd LT. in Virginia National Guard

Norman Randolph Turpin:

• 1919 - Born September 24 in Richmond, VA
• 1940 - Enlisted in Virginia National Guard
• 1942 - Active duty with 1033rd Service Unit, Camp Lee, VA
•           - Basic Infantry Training at Camp Wheeler, GA
•           - OCS school - Fort Benning, GA ( 2nd LT)
• 1943 - Paratroop school - Fort Benning, GA
• 1944 - O.S.S school - Fort Benning, GA
•           - Stationed with OSS in North Africa, made 3 jumps into German occupied Italy to work with guerrillas.
• 1945 - Regimental S-3 with Airborne training regiment
•           - Transfered to 503rd parachute infantry regiment (Company 'F', 2nd Battalion) in the Philippine Islands
• July 14 - Killed in action near Fabrica Oriental Negros Island

David T Ayers Jr.

Marie Ayers

• 1919 - Born ... in Oakland, CA
• 1940 - Enlisted in Waves
• ...

	A. Royal Turpin and buddy - unknown location and date
A. Royal Turpin - an Id photo sent back to his sister during the war
	An ad from a magazine, during the war, featuring minesweeping applications of Chrysler technology.

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