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Marcus enlisted in the
Navy, perhaps after attaining the age of 17 in December 1944. These
three quarterly ship's muster rolls (August and October 1945, and
January 1946) indicate he began serving on the LST 951 on 23 August
1945 when he was 17 years and 8 months of age, At that time
the ship was deployed in the western Pacific and he was rated as a
Signalman 1st Class
After leaving the Navy, and now 18, Marcus
registered for the draft in Fayetteville, NC on 6 May 1946.
His date of induction into the Army is not known.
 On
7 July 1956, SFC Baxley and his German-born wife, Erika, were listed
on the manifest for a MATS flight from Germany to Maguire AFB, NJ.
Erika unsuccessfully
petitioned to become a naturalized U.S. citizen in the District
Court at Bowling Green, KY. Her petition was denied on 23 May
1962.
At some point following this stint
with the 508th ARCT at Fort Campbell. KY, Marcus shed his Army
uniform for that of the Air Force. His date of retirement is not
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