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over there faster and help fight the
Germans:' Kaye reflected. "I had read
about how Hitler wanted to dominate
the world and about all the atrocities
being inflicted on the Jewish people.
Unfortunately, some of our leaders
ignored these atrocities. I don't think
many Americans caught the signifi-
cance of what might have happened to
all of us if the Axis had won the war.
"The younger generations are
more acquainted with the current
Afghanistan and Iraq wars, but I don't
want them to forget World War IL"
A graduate of Detroit's Commerce
High School, Kaye returned to his
studies at Wayne (State) University,
got a bachelor's of science degree,
then became a certified public
accountant. He owned Charles Kaye
& Co. for 42 years, including an office
in Farmington Hills. Now retired,
he is still a director of the Bank of
Birmingham.

Frat Brother In Pacific
Kaye's Gamma Kappa Chi fraternity
brother at Wayne, Dr. Louis Hoffman,
88, of Huntington Woods, a retired
psychiatrist, fought a different kind
of war — against the Japanese on the
contested islands of the Pacific. He
has a Bronze Medal and three Purple
Hearts to show for it.
Infantryman Hoffman caught some
shrapnel in the invasion of Leyte Island
in the Philippines, earning his first
Purple Heart, then moved on to land
on the beach at Okinawa. The Japanese
were entrenched on the island and put
up one of the fiercest battles of the
Pacific war because it was so close to
Japan. Hoffman's company had only
five survivors when it ended.
"I got hit by more shrapnel there, so
they gave me another Purple Heart:'
said Hoffman.

"But," he went on in modesty char-
acteristic of combat vets, "I'd rather
not talk about why I won a Bronze
Stan"
The hospital ship U.S.S. Comfort
carrying him and other wounded sol-
diers was hit by a Japanese kamikaze
(suicide) bomber, injuring many of
them again, killing the entire medical
staff and destroying equipment. "But
we made it to a hospital in Guam, then
I was sent to Hawaii. I got my third
Purple Heart in the air attack," he said.

Psychiatrist
For 55 Years
After VJ (Victory
in Japan) Day in
August, Hoffman,
a graduate of
Detroit's Central
High, returned to
Wayne to com-
plete his medical Louis Hoffman
education and
practiced psy-
chiatry for 55 years.
Kaye and his wife, Mildred, and
Hoffman and his wife, Florence, have
been married 65 and 64 years, respec-
tively. They remain good friends today.
"I believe my combat experience
actually helped me in my psychoanal-
ysis of people in later years:' offered
Hoffman. "Being under pressure and
stressful situations myself gave me
a better understanding of how my
patients reacted to the same condi-
tions."
Kaye and Hoffman were two of
670,000 Americans wounded in the
war; 405,000 were killed.
Said Kaye: "We may have been
awarded medals, but the real heroes
of the war were those who never came
back." LI