And we return to our American stories. Up next, a story from Rana Simmons. Rana is an historian

and the author of The Other Veterans of World War II, stories from behind the front lines.

It's a book that dives into the lives of men and women who weren't necessarily firing guns and storming enemy positions,

but certainly help bring us to victory in the war.

Up next, a story about one of those individuals.

Here's Rana with the story of Frank

Cohn. Take it away, Rana. He was born in Maryland to a very well-to-do family. His father was a

physician. He had graduated from John Hopkins University and had a medical degree.

And Frank Cohn had a preliction to education as well.

He became a leader in his class.

He became an Eagle Scout.

He was a class treasurer.

He graduated from high school and then he went to Johns Hopkins University, just like his father,

graduated in there with a Bachelor of Science degree and also was recognized as being a member with

the Omicron Delta Kappa Fraternity, which is a national leadership honor society.

Now, that might be enough for you or me or many other people, but not for Frank.

And he decided that he would go on with his education.

He would continue them.

And he earned a Bachelor of Arts at Johns Hopkins in 1933, and then a medical degree from

John Hopkins in 1938.

And that's where he met his wife. They married, but he got married twice,

once at the university in Annapolis by a Baptist minister, and then because of course families

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