Both my father-in-law and my uncle* served in battle in the Pacific Theater on ships during WWII: the former on the heavy cruiser USS Baltimore, the latter on the aircraft carrier Essex.
Both men survived the war, no thanks to the Japanese Navy (the Essex even suffered a Kamikaze strike)
Brownbird - Memorial Day 2021
*shown here with his mother (my grandmother) in April 1945
2 comments:
So glad our handsome men survived.
Aw family history! Love seeing things like this and the happy ending of coming home ❤️
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