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World War II deeply affects the family.

All four of the Walton boys enlist in the military.

Mary Ellen's physician husband, Curtis " Curt " Willard, is sent to Pearl Harbor and is reported to have perished in the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.

Years later, Mary Ellen hears of sightings of her " late " husband, investigates and finds him alive ( played by another actor ), but brooding over his war wounds and living under an assumed name.

She later remarries.