The medics also played a vital role in the victory in World War II. Robert Lin Alexander, one of the doctors, was born in Okmulgee, Oklahoma on 14 September, 1910. He went to high school at Okmulgee High School and graduated from the University of Tennessee. Robert married Urith Bowden 19 August, 1935, and they had their first child, Robert Lin Alexander Jr., in 1936. Their second child, Tom Alexander, was born 9 June, 1937. Robert volunteered to go to the military because he knew he was going to be drafted anyway. He volunteered in 1942, and went in as a 1st Lieutenant and later got promoted to a captain. In the beginning of his service, Robert was an examining doctor at Oklahoma City, and his job was to examine the soldiers to see if they
