Oh, forgot to add. He died in 1986, two days after his 64th birthday.
So many of the men who made it home from WWII, died young. Sorry you lost your father at that young age. My two uncle's, one from both sides of the family served in US Army in the Burma, China, India theater. My uncle on my father's side died in June 1948, at age 41, less than a year after I was born. My uncle on my mother's side died September 1964 at age 48. I was a Junior in high school at the time. He and his wife lived in California until he got sick and came back to live with us. He was in the VA Hospital in Batavia, NY until he passed.
My only brother enlisted in the U.S. Army and served in Vietnam 1966-67. He would never talk about his time there. He passed far too young of a massive heart attack at 51.