When Mable Anna Bates was born on 17 December 1922, her father, Shedrick Newell Bates, was 25 and her mother, Virginia Marie "Jennie" Soulier, was 24. She lived in United States in 1949 and Wappingers Falls, Wappinger, Dutchess, New York, United States in 1950. She died on 3 July 2005, in Dunedin, Pinellas, Florida, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Largo, Pinellas, Florida, United States.
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Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
Similar to the first World War, Florida's location and temperature served as an ideal location for military training; in fact, Florida would end up having 172 military installations. As a result of World War II growth, Camp Blanding became the fourth largest city in Florida, capable of housing over 55,000 soldiers. Many Floridians sacrificed their lives among other Americans to win the war; it's estimated that about 3,000 U.S. deaths were from Floridian troops.
The G.I. Bill was a law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans that were on active duty during the war and weren't dishonorably discharged. The goal was to provide rewards for all World War II veterans. The act avoided life insurance policy payouts because of political distress caused after the end of World War I. But the Benefits that were included were: Dedicated payments of tuition and living expenses to attend high school, college or vocational/technical school, low-cost mortgages, low-interest loans to start a business, as well as one year of unemployment compensation. By the mid-1950s, around 7.8 million veterans used the G.I. Bill education benefits.
English: variant of Bate with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s. This surname is also common in Ireland.
Americanized form of German Betz . See also Betts .
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