This was my Dad and Mom in 1942 Dad was a career U.S. Naval Officer and a real warrior. He was in combat from the Marshall Is. through seventeen beachhead operations across the Pacific. He was awarded a Silver Star for his first action in the Marshalls. He was wounded at Saipan and spent a month on a hospital ship off Tinian. He went back on duty to be involved with the landings at Leyte in the Phillipines and was in the group of volunteers who took the Underwater Demolition Teams (FROG MEN) close to the shore at Iwo Jima to blow up the barriers the Japs had built to try to keep the troops from landing. Later he was at Okinawa through all the Kamekazi attacks. For all his combat actions he received several more medals including a Purple Heart and a Legion Of Merit and his unit received two Presidential Citations.