Posted on Oct 5, 2021
How this one scene in ‘1917′ set me on the trail of my grandfather
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Absolutely Amazing MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.! While putting together my Father’s shadow box, I discovered he was never assigned ‘permanent party’ during WWII or Korea. He was always in a training status. He was a turret gunner and the youngest of the seven Greene brothers. My Uncle Ensign Eugene A Greene was a dive bomber during the Battle of Midway and was MIA after the battle and then presumed KIA. There is a destroyer escort named for him. Four of my Uncles served in the Army during WWII.
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MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D.
It's cool doing genealogy work. I found my mom's mother had a sister who lost two sons in the naval battles off Guadalcanal. One, a 19-year CPO was on the USS Astoria, which was sunk during the Battle of Savo Island. The other, a 19-year-old seaman on the USS San Francisco was among 107 killed during a night battle with a Japanese battleship. I also had an uncle captured on Wake Island, an aunt killed in a headon collision with an AVGAS tanker at March Field, and two more uncles who served--my dad's brother who was a P-47 crew chief in the Ninth AF and my mom's sister's husband who was an ordnance specialist in the Pacific with the Marines.
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Interesting! I found great discoveries through Newspapers.com with my Global Subscription with Ancestry.com!
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