![]() ![]() ![]() Despite begging his supervisor for an overseas appointment, he spent most of his first year serving as a publications editor for the Bureau of Aeronautics in Washington, D.C. In 1943, Michener was commissioned into the United States Navy as a lieutenant and took a leave of absence from Macmillan Publishing. Patti Michener also felt compelled to serve and enlisted in the Women’s Army Corps in 1942. several times trying to convince them to commission him as an officer. In 1942, Michener met with military officers in Washington. James Michener followed the war closely and wrote in a 1942 New York Times opinion piece “Nazi Germany is capable of destroying Europe.” At this point, Michener was thirty-five, and not likely to be conscripted into military service through the draft, but was described as having “a moral imperative to stop Hitler and the Japanese aggressors, and he was determined to have a part in it himself” (Hayes, 1984). Shortly after James and Patti Michener moved to New York, the United States entered World War II. ![]()
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