Did You Know?

Your great grandfather Louis Clifford Duncan served in World War II?  He enlisted in 1942 after he completed his mission for the Church in the Spanish speaking mission.  His mission area encompassed Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona.  While in basic training they found out that he was fluent in Spanish and so he was selected to be in a newly formed unit called the Counter Intelligence Unit.  He completed Officer Candidate School and then served for a short time in Phoenix and Tucson translating Spanish intelligence documents.  He was eventually sent to Australia and  then on to the Philippines.  He played a big role in breaking the Japanese Battle Code.  He was made 2nd Lieutenant while in Manilla in 1945.  When he finally left the Philippines he arrived back in the states with a bad case a seasickness and malaria.  He arrived back in Utah in December of 1945.