On a personal note, my father is celebrating his 23rd birthday on this date, as a corporal taking care of the radios on the airplanes at Harmon Field in Guam, including presumably those that were bombing Kure in my earlier post. He doesn’t know it, but he will be flown out of Guam in October because his widowed mother is supposedly dying from a heart attack, though she will go on to live for another 17 years. One of the unintended consequences of this is that he will see his girl in Philadelphia; they will get married the next February, move into the second-story walkup above a bakery in west Philadelphia, and he will become an electronics instructor teaching GI Bill veterans how to build and repair the latest in consumer electronics, the television. His favorite (only) son will wait until ‘54 to be born.
the latest in consumer electronics, the television. His favorite (only) son will wait until ‘54 to be born.