[fredhead]

They are getting fewer and fewer. My Dad passed two years ago this week. He was 87. He joined in 1941 “to keep from getting drafted.” Fought with the 13th Infantry from 2 weeks after D-Day until the German surrender. Was in the states training for the invasion of Japan when (his words) “Harry Truman saved my life.”

Met my Mom while stationed in Tennessee in 1942 and they married shortly after his discharge in 1945. The celebrated almost 61 years together. Mom passed two years ago this Christmas.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

My dad was a little too old to step forward in '42. He was born in 1906 and had gone into aviation as a pilot for China National Airlines Co., owned by American Airlines at the time.
He left CNAC and became a civilian pilot in the China-Burma-India Campaign, flying the Hump.