These threads on WW2 veterans are always good. I know this is a Battle of the Bulge thread but others have posted their family stories so I will do mine.
Dad was the “second son” so he knew when they enacted the draft he was going. He joined the Navy just before the War started. Watched overloaded PBYs head out from San Diego.
Spent the war on a seagoing tug from Portland Maine to the Panama Canal then Portland Oregon. And Back again. Only time he was scared was a hurricane. Did not get released until Wright Patman a Texas Dem Congressman got a law passed to get them out of the service. That had implications for Korea.
Will follow up in a bit with another relative
God Bless your Dad.