Alaska Highway, Medical Detachment. Born: 3 Nov 1918, Detroit, Michigan. Died: 8 Aug 2008, Ithaca, Michigan. Enlisted in the Army on 8 Aug 1941 in Michigan. Education: one year college. Civil occupation: stated on enlistment records fabrication of textile products. In the 1940 census he worked as a machine operator in an automobile factory. He married Luella E. Meyer on 25 Sep 1948 in St. Louis, MO. His father Alwin E. Jacobus was a leather cutter in a automobile factory. His mother Edith C. (Paul) Jacobus was a housewife.