When Paul LaRoy Carff was born on 27 August 1940, in Hot Springs, Fall River, South Dakota, United States, his father, Vincent Emery Carff, was 34 and his mother, Winifred Grace Schwartz, was 25. He lived in United States in 1949 and Valrico, Hillsborough, Florida, United States in 2007. He died on 29 July 2007, in Brandon, Hillsborough, Florida, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Florida, United States.
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Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.
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.
Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States to be launched and successfully orbit the Earth.
Americanized form of German Scharf or Scharff . Compare Sharff .
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