{"id":4439,"date":"2026-02-08T08:34:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T14:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/?page_id=4439"},"modified":"2026-02-11T15:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T21:29:27","slug":"my-father-1934-august-1940","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/my-father-1934-august-1940\/","title":{"rendered":"My Father: 1934 – August 1940"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Civilian Conservation Corp, Company 2618<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Camp Globe, Fairchild, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States: 12 September 1934<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Civilian Conservation Corp, Company 2618<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Camp Globe, Fairchild, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States: May 1935<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fort Snelling, Minneapolis, Minnesota<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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View the 1938 “Historic Fort Snelling<\/em><\/a>” publication<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/span>14 January 1937: US Army Enlistment Papers<\/div>
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View his Individual Score Book for the Rifle<\/strong><\/a> from 1937.<\/p>\n\n\n

<\/span>14 January 1937 - 19 July 1939: US Army Service Record<\/div>
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<\/span>20 July 1939: US Army Enlistment Papers<\/div>
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Chanute Field, Illinois<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chanute Field<\/strong> was established in 1917<\/strong> next to Rantoul, Illinois (Champaign County)<\/strong> as one of the U.S. Army\u2019s World War I aviation training fields. Over time it evolved into one of the nation\u2019s best-known Air Force technical training bases<\/strong>, operating until it closed in 1993<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After WWI, the installation remained active and increasingly emphasized technical and maintenance training<\/strong>, a mission that would define it for decades. See the WIkipedia article about Chanute Field.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n

<\/span>30 April1940: US Federal Census<\/div>
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<\/span>08 August 1940: US Army - Report of Desertion<\/div>
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Next: September 1940 – October 1943<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Back to My Father<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Civilian Conservation Corp, Company 2618 Camp Globe, Fairchild, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States: 12 September 1934 Civilian Conservation Corp, Company 2618 Camp Globe, Fairchild, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States: May 1935 Fort Snelling, Minneapolis, Minnesota View the 1938 “Historic Fort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4439","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4439"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4975,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4439\/revisions\/4975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}