Please visit the California Revealed website to see the most complete and up-to-date version of this object: https://repository.californiarevealed.org/node/327836.The War Comes Home project collects a Southern California community's stories, photographs, paperwork, and other items submitted by its veterans documenting their service to their country. It also highlights how they applied, recalled, and shared their experiences when they returned to their community as business and civic leaders as well as overall productive members of society. Kenneth D. Cooper is a veteran of World War II. He was born on February 2, 1928 in Oneida, Kansas. He enlisted and served in the Navy from January 1946 to November 1947. His highest rank was Yeoman 3rd Class. He served on the USS Dixie and as well as in Honolulu, the South Sea, and Tsingtao (present day Qingdao), China. His special duties included observing an atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll and being the Secretary of the Engineering Department while under direct command of the Lieutenant of the Engineering Department. He also escorted sick and injured soldiers to hospitals on shore.

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