re: Relatives that served in World War 2

Dad enlisted in the Navy after France fell. His reasoning was that we would end up at war and being drafted meant Army and he didn't want to walk.

One uncle was in the Army Air Corps in 1943 halfway through college, he flew P-38's in Europe attacking convoys and trains.

One uncle was married so was drafted and served in the Panama Canal Zone.

One uncle enlisted in the Army and was sent to the Pacific where he fought in New Guinea and the Philippine. He had a 4 foot long string of Japanese gold teeth as one of his war souvenirs.

Wife's grandfather served in the USMC as a Captain in intel in the Pacific. He looked at aerial recon photos and posed with bare breasted grass skirted native women. He had a wife and daughter who lived in La Jolla while he was in training, then moved back to NOLA.