[OldNavyVet]

My father was recalled to the US Navy in early 1941 and went aboard a Pacific fleet destroyer on it’s way to the Atlantic.

So my mother gathered up the rest of us and we drove to Virginia for the duration.

I remember it well.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

My father was recalled to the US Navy in early 1941 and went aboard a Pacific fleet destroyer on it’s way to the Atlantic.

Did he spend the whole war on a destroyer in the Atlantic? That would be a long tour. In my day (early seventies) people switched duty stations every couple of years. I have the idea that during the war sailors often stayed on the same ship as long as it was still floating.