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Dad was a navy corpsman in the Pacific. His brother was army artillery in ETO, Father in law was in a unit that went through newly captured German towns and helped de Nazification and to set up new local governments. His brother was a marine mortarman severely wounded at Okinawa. My step father was seriously wounded by a kamikaze on the DD he served on in the Pacific.

WWI:

My grandfather on my mother's side was a fighter pilot with the AEF.

WWII:

My dad entered the navy in 1944 but never went to sea. He drove trucks in Manhattan. He told me about taking a train from New York to some base in Michigan
and because the train BREIFLY passed through Canada all the guys got paid an extra $100.00 for "overseas" duty.

My uncle (on my mother's side) was a West Point graduate and served in the 4th armored in France/Germany.

My mother had at least three brothers in WW2. One served in 331st regiment of 83rd Inf and died in Normandy on July 24. One served in field artillery and my mother said he was only survivor of his 105(?) gun at Salerno during battle with German tanks. Other was in ground crew for transport group flying over Himalaya's to China. My father had a brother in army but I don't know any details. My father joined in August of 1945 and was in occupation of Japan.

My father flew on B-29s out of Tinian. He was assigned to the 313th Wing, 20th Air Force, 9th Bombardment Group, 99th Squadron, Crew #32 flying on V53 "Jake's Jalopy." He was on a Super Dumbo (Oberservation/Rescue) That fateful day at Nagasaki. All in all I think he flew on 35 missions, if memory serves, out of Tinian's North Field.





The front row names are for the men in the back row and vice versa.