Marriage and World War II
In 1942 Aptheker married his first cousin, Fay Philippa Aptheker (1905–1999), also of Brooklyn. She was a union organizer and also an activist. They were married for 62 years, until her death. Their daughter, Bettina Aptheker, was born in 1944 at the U.S. Army Hospital in Fort Bragg, North Carolina during his service in World War II. Aptheker participated in Operation Overlord, the invasion of France; by 1945 he had been promoted to the rank of Major in the artillery. In December 1950, after failing to respond to the U.S. Army’s letter of inquiry about his Communist political activity, he lost his commission after an honorable discharge.
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