i have been reading old family letters from the 40s from a sailor
they really went through a lot of training...didn’t get paid much.
I knew that you had to pay back Red Cross but when you read about a wife that has a borrow $10 bucks so her husband on the other side of the US can pay back the Red Cross it kind of hacks you off. 10 bucks was a lot of money back then.
It seems a lot of the men had bad teeth. So many they had to construct a big facility to handle the dental work. the letter said the dentists treat them like horses and it hurts like hell.
I knew someone whose father was a dentist in the Pacific during WWII. He didn’t have electricity but he had a corpsman on a bicycle that would pedal to get the drill to revolve. Apparently they didn’t have a lot of or any novocaine.