A common conclusion in their wartime studies was that, in the words of Maj. Carl H. Jonas, who studied fifty-three white and seven black men at Camp Haan, California, "overt homosexuality occurs in a heterogeneous group of individuals." Dr. Clements Fry, director of the Yale University student clinic, and Edna Rostow, a social worker, who together studied the service records of 183 servicemen, discovered that
there was no evidence to support the common belief that "homosexuality is uniformly correlated with specific personality traits" and concluded that
generalizations about the homosexual personality "are not yet reliable."
.... Sometimes to their amazement, [researchers] described what they called the "well-adjusted homosexuals" who, in [William] Menninger's words, "concealed their homosexuality effectively and, at the same time, made creditable records for themselves in the service." Some researchers spoke in glowing terms of these men. "The homosexuals observed in the service," noted Navy doctors Greenspan and Campbell, "have been key men in responsible positions whose loss [by discharge] was acutely felt in their respective departments."
They were "conscientious, reliable, well-integrated and abounding in emotional feeling and sincerity." In general,
"the homosexual leads a useful productive life, conforming with all dictates of the community, except its sexual requirements" and was
"neither a burden nor a detriment to society." Fry and Rostow reported that, based on evidence in service records,
homosexuals were no better or worse than other soldiers and that many "performed well in various military jobs" including combat (Berube, 1990, pp. 170-171, footnotes omitted).