- My father was 2nd Marines (Guadacanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian before he was too shot up to continue...)
- One of his brothers (the one I know well) was an army medic in Europe.
- I'll have to ask, but I believe another of his brothers was 8th Air Force and was killed in action.
- I'm told by my mother that after WWII, relatives in Germany (I come from good Prussian stock you see wrote my Grandparents here in the states and asked for clothing and powdered milk.