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Clockwise from top left: Bernard Morof, shortly after graduating in 1943

from Officers Candidate School in New Orleans as a second lieutenant.

Tomb Guardian, about 1850-1929, terra cotta.
Imitator of Chinese art, unknown culture. Formerly
unknown artist, Northern Wei (Chinese, about 400).
Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Monte Korn in 1943, in Marine Corps officers training at Quantico, Va.

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Charles Finkelstein entered the Army in 1943 at Ft. Custer, Mich., attached

to Company C, 640th Tank Destroyer Battalion. Army Capt. Willie Stone in

1946, assistant commandant, 1253rd Combat Engineers in charge of the

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Patton was in Europe. MacArthur had
actually flown back to Manila, but
then left to board a landing craft so
he could get out and walk through the
water for photographers."
Finkelstein is happy President
Harry Truman approved dropping two
atomic bombs in Japan on 1945, which
ended the war. "He made the right
decision:' he points out. "It prevented
an invasion of Japan, and my group
already had been selected to be in the
second wave. The A-bombs saved mil-
lions; the Japanese would never have
given up."
Finkelstein, who was an Army ser-
geant, suffered from malaria on and
off during the war, but returned to
own and operate Acme Auto Parts in
Pontiac for 57 years.

Unexpected Seder
Morof, 90, of Southfield, had the

unique position during the war as an
Army Transportation Corps first lieu-
tenant in charge of protecting Liberty
cargo ships headed for Pacific ports
— "and making sure guns, ammuni-
tion, clothes and food goods got to the
right people',' he says.
"Until I got my sea legs, I was pretty
wobbly. On the first trip, I even got
seasick as soon as we went under the
Golden Gate Bridge. But I made four
trips, to the Mariana Islands, Manila,
Okinawa, then Japan at the end of the
war, going through a lot of storms and
even a few typhoons."
Morof guided 250,000 cases of beer
to Japan to help U.S. forces celebrate
the victory, "but our soldiers were
spoiled; they liked Japanese beer bet-
ter:' he said. "Luckily, we never were
attacked at sea all that time by planes
or submarines. My greatest scare came
one night in the Philippines when a