I was just a twinkle in my Dads eye in 1945,He was an Aviation Machinists Mate stationed on a ship in the Pacific.
You kid, you!
The best part of the Japanese surrender is that all my uncles in the Navy came home. But, my uncles in the Army went to Japan to help with the Occupation. My father had suffered polio at age 2, so he was 4F.
All the influx of people moving in and out of our town and the aftermath of the Depression made housing hard to get. (We had an Army airbase located in our town.) We had sold our house in 1943 and moved in ‘briefly’ with my grandmother. Housing was very tight, and ‘briefly’ extended to 6 years until we could finally find another house in 1949. We were able to assume a GI Loan from a man divorcing his wife who wanted out of his house obligation.
My 97 year old mother lives there still.