Kansas Opener

[Jeff Christie]

Probably most survived if they were farmers. Most could get a deferment if they requested it. They were essential to feeding the nation. I had three uncles in Kansas. One stayed home and farmed. Two and an aunt went to war.

[Drew Hause]

As men left Kansas to fight, many came to Kansas for aviation training, and some stayed after meeting a Kansas cutie
https://kshs.org/resource/survey/ww2...rveyreport.pdf
One of my uncles was an instructor at the Naval Air Station in Olathe. A student pilot was on a training flight, and tried to fly low over his family's house in Independence. Crashed the plane.