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Sources
1. Title:   U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;
2. Title:   Ohio, County Marriage Records, 1774-1993
Author:   Ancestry.com
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3. Title:   Ohio, Birth Index, 1908-1964
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;
4. Title:   U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Page:   Number: 284-16-5942; Issue State: Ohio; Issue Date: Before 1951
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;
5. Title:   U.S., Headstone Applications for Military Veterans, 1925-1963
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;
6. Title:   Web: Monroe County, Michigan, Obituary Index,1821-2012
Page:   Monroe County Historical Commission Archives; Monroe, MI, USA; Obituary Search
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;
7. Title:   U.S., School Yearbooks, 1900-1990
Page:   "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; Yearbook Title: The Saga; Year: 1939
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
8. Title:   1940 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1940; Census Place: Toledo, Lucas, Ohio; Roll: m-t0627-03258; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 95-38
Author:   Ancestry.com
Publication:   Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;
9. Title:   1930 United States Federal Census
Page:   Year: 1930; Census Place: Toledo, Lucas, Ohio; Roll: 1833; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 0019; FHL microfilm: 2341567
Author:   Ancestry.com
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Page:   "U.S., School Yearbooks, 1880-2012"; Year: 1941
Author:   Ancestry.com
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11. Title:   U.S., World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Author:   Ancestry.com
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12. Title:   Death Certificate
13. Title:   U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Page:   The National Archives in St. Louis, Missouri; St. Louis, Missouri; Draft Registration Cards for Ohio, 10/16/1940-03/31/1947; Record Group: Records of the Selective Service System, 147; Box: 718
Author:   Ancestry.com
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Notes
a. Note:   He attended St. Mary's Catholic Elementary and Woodward High School. He played varsity football in high school, from which he graduated in 1941.
  He enlisted in the Army Air Corp on August 5, 1942, entering service at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. He served with the 483rd Bombardment Group (Heavy), Squadron 817, training at MacDill Field in Florida and leaving for the European Theater of Operations on March 13, 1944. He participated in Air Offensive: Europe, Rome-Arno, Normandy, Northern France, Southern France, Rhineland, Northern Apennines, Po Valley, and Balkans. He was a radio mechanic and a radar mechanic and achieved the rank of Staff Sergeant. His unit received a Presidential Unit Citation with Oak Leaf Cluster and he received the Good Conduct Medal, The European African Middle Eastern Service Medal with 9 Bronze Stars. He arrived back in the States on September 22, 1945 and was discharged at Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania on October 4, 1945. VA records list his MOS as 862 and his ASN 15105700.
  Following the war, he worked for the E.I. Dupont de Numours & Co. Inc. as a chemical analyst. He also worked part time jobs as a TV repairman and a bartender. In 1959, he moved to Lambertville, Michigan where he built a house at 3270 Pleasant Drive.
  Social Security # issued in Ohio.
  Buried in Calvery Cemetery, Section 43, Lot 41, Grave 4.
  World War II Enlistment Record:
  Name: Lawrence G Johnston
  Birth Year: 1923
  Race: White, citizen
  Nativity State or Country: Ohio
  State: Ohio
  County or City: Lucas
  Enlistment Date: 5 Aug 1942
  Enlistment State: Indiana
  Enlistment City: Fort Benjamin Harrison
  Branch: Air Corps
  Branch Code: Air Corps
  Grade: Private
  Grade Code: Private
  Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
  Component: Army of the United States - includes the following: Voluntary enlistments effective December 8, 1941 and thereafter; One year enlistments of National Guardsman whose State enlistment expires while in the Federal Service; Officers appointed in the Army of
  Source: Civil Life
  Education: 4 years of high school
  Civil Occupation: Laboratory Technician, Motion Picture or Shipping Clerk
  Marital Status: Single, without dependents
  Height: 66
  Weight: 148

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