545 Days at Sea: Take a Walk in a World War II Sailor s Shoes
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Veteran Diary: This World War II Sailor Tells His Tale
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These kind of first-person accounts are invauable.
Key point: As more members of the Greatest Generation pass away, many of their memories of World War II are passing with them. Here is how one Veteran s son found the diary he kept during World War II.
Suppose you found a magic door that opened onto some of the most crucial battles fought in the Pacific during World War II?
That’s the kind of door I stumbled upon in February 2010 when my 91-year-old father, Edward James Reynolds, died and left behind a diary that recounts nearly every day he spent as a radar man on the aircraft carrier Yorktown during World War II.