These pictures and notes are from my days in the World War II Navy V-12 and Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps at Duke University, Durham, NC.  The period was from November 1, 1943 to February 28, 1946.

I should mention that I was too small to enter sports with "the big guys," so I did the types of things where size didn't matter.  I weighed only 118 pounds when I arrived, and about 130 at graduation. …