Deployment

This is a news clipping posted in the Danbury News Times on December 3, 1942. In this particular clipping it mentions a total of fifty young men, of which Truman Warner is included, who will be joining the army and sent to Europe to be a part of the Second World War. Warner at the time was only twenty-two years old and was living on 29 Division Street, in Danbury CT.

Truman Warner, in the year 1941, had just graduated from Danbury State Teacher’s College. He was continuing his educational career by working at a local school in Danbury. With the wartime madness that was going on around him, he showed his appreciation and love for the community by signing up for the Civilian Defense Council as an Air Raid Warden. This was his move to help his community, but he had no intentions of joining the fight against the Axis powers overseas. Unfortunately, it would not be that way for him. Warner was drafted into the United States Army as a medic around autumn of 1942. It was the beginning of his military career overseas.