Word: geismans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco. Willis T. Geisman's family lives in an upstairs flat on Ramona Avenue. His father owns the building, rents out the downstairs, works in the basement as a photofinisher for neighborhood drugstores. Willis was his father's assistant through grade and high school, went to the University of California, went to Alaska as a Government photographer. He joined the Marines in 1940, was stationed first in Shanghai...
...picture of Willis Geisman leading his company in review in Shanghai hangs over the stairway. Over the living room mantelpiece hangs another: Willis Geis man in the uniform of a Marine lieutenant...
...last letter the Geisman family received was from Bataan, dated Feb. 20, saying only: "At times . . . the environment is not quite so pleasing...
...Navy telegram arrived in April: wounded in action. Mr. Geisman is a little sheepish about the way he reacted: he took a streetcar to the Army transport docks, tried to get to the Philippines him self. Says he: "They were nice to me, but they explained that it was doubtful that any boats would be going to Bataan...
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