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John Thayer Weeks

John Thayer Weeks, Green Book/Aegis image Name: John Thayer Weeks
Class: 1944
Military Unit: US Army Corps of Engineers

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John: "One way or the other they made two room apartments out of it [Fayerweather], a bedroom and a living room...each one consisted of a little bathroom, a toilet and a sink.  Period. You did your showers in the showers. That Christmas everybody came home with two-burner hot plates and the first thing that happened at five o'clock or something like that, everybody plugged in their hot plates and turned them on and the breaker down in the basement went bang and everything went black."

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