This excellent ACTCOTS training class booklet was shared by the staff artist who created the book, Richard Williams son Rich.
Rich writes "My father was the artist listed in the class books as part of the class book staff. His job was to produce the drawing and layouts and get them printed locally. Prior to the start of the war he had been drafted for a year and was ready to return to civilian life when the war started. My father was trained as a combat engineer and he wanted to do that, but as the war started the post commander Col Lentz (who was the senior Col in the Army and knew he was too old to command) negotiated a role for Fort Slocum which turned out to be this school plus other training. Considering it’s an island with no railroads it seemed odd. Once they decided to make Slocum a training facility they needed an artist and my father was already there, so he was frozen and spent the war years at Slocum. He was also part of the group that designed the branch insignia with the railroad drive wheel showing wings. TC later attributed the wings to the aviation branch but at the time of its creation there was an Army Air Corps"
ACTCOTS (Atlantic Coast Transportation Corps Officers' Training School) 1943
The class graduated on March 13th 1943 and reported on the 15th in the local newspaper
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