Seaman Apprentice Jackie Cooper, 21, right, poses with fellow students at the Naval V-12 school at South Bend, Ind., in 1943.
In this Nov. 3, 1943, photo, Seaman Apprentice Jackie Cooper, right, a former motion picture actor, and Walter J. Finn, left, of Rochester, Minn., admire the service ribbons of Dudley C. Mathes, of Long Beach, Calif., at the University of Notre Dame, where the three were enrolled in a new class in the Naval V-12 school. Cooper, 21, is among 400 youths beginning study for commissions at the school. (Tribune File Photo / November 3, 1943).
