June Weddings
This July 4, 1938, cover story features the wedding of a newly minted West Point graduate, Lieut. Louis Nathaniel Dosh to Betty Bloxom, at the West Point Chapel. Lieut. Dosh was eventually ordered to the 57th Infantry in the Philippines where he was captured by the Japanese. He survived the Bataan Death March but was killed by American planes while on a Japanese “Hell Ship.” These ships transported American prisoners and Japanese soldiers to Japan, and on Jan. 20, 1945, as American troops drew closer to the Philippines, his ship was sunk. The American military was aware that American prisoners were being transported to Japan in unmarked ships to be used as forced labor, but made the tough decision that every Japanese ship must be attacked in order to win the war. LIFE also reports on the weddings of prominent people including FDR’s son, John, to Anne Clark. John Roosevelt divorced Anne and later remarried. The marriage scorecard for the other Roosevelt children: FDR, Jr. -5 marriages; James-4 marriages; Elliot-3 marriages; Anna-3 marriages. The Marshall Field, Jr. and Joanne Bass marriage is depicted. They were later divorced and Field married Lynne Templeton, the sister of one of my brother’s friends, in 1965. Field died later that year of an accidental overdose.