Dan Coker in Johannesburg, South Africa, during World War II

ID: 1027 ~ Source: Judy Coker Benowitz ~ Creator: U.S. Army ~ Date: ca. 1945
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ID: Full-length portrait of white man smiling slightly, wearing a khaki-colored medium-brimmed hat with a khaki uniform of shirt and slacks with a belt and dark leather work shoes.

This file appears in: Drafted into the Army

By Judy Coker Benowitz
"My dad entered the war in President Roosevelt’s first peacetime military draft. The family appealed to the draft board because he was the breadwinner of a family he cared for since age ten, but he shipped out. Dan was gone for…