Beginning in March of 1963, Jack attended Officer Candidate School in Maryland, in the class at Aberdeen Proving Grounds (Jack Nemerov, WWII Memoir). The objective of O.C.S. was to find out if the young men had the nerve to stand up under adverse…

Jack and a few other men were selected from Camp Perry to help form the 9th Armored Division in Fort Riley, Kansas (Jack Nemerov, We Remember History Oral Interview). The officer personnel at Fort Riley had no concept of modern-day warfare, which…

Jack was transported to Camp Perry, located just a few miles outside of Toledo, Ohio (Jack Nemerov, WWII Memoir). Jack and the other young men were kept terribly busy during their time there. Every day, they drilled, exercised, and completed the…

Jack was officially called to active duty in April 1942, when he was transported to Camp Sutton in North Carolina (Jack Nemerov, WWII Memoir). Jack described the camp as being relatively “sprung out of a swamp” (Jack Nemerov, We Remember History…

Jack Nemerov was born on September 17, 1917, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was born into a Jewish family of four consisting of his parents, Isadore, and his older sister, Edith. They lived in North Minneapolis which was a highly Jewish populated…