I'm not sure, but his ship was headed to Japan when we bombed Hiroshima (or Nagasaki), I don't have much info because he only talked about it in generalities. I only know about this because he told my bro when my brother was adult. He may have been in Hawaii for a short time. He was a graduate of the Navy Hospital Corpsman school in (I believe), Norfolk VA. He developed a lifelong love of all things grits. I think we were the only kids in NJ who grits and eggs on a regular basis.
Ah, my dad met my mom when he was on New Calidonia. He spoke English, she, French, talked for about 5 minutes, he got her name and address, they wrote during the war, and when the war was over, he went back to the island married her and brought her to the states. I guess she is considered a war bride.
If the naval battle group was heading to Japan after the bomb was dropped, that would be considered the final invasion of Japan if necessary my dad was a part of it, he was on the Lexington and Hornet earlier and then the Enterprise aircraft carriers, he was an aviator, and he described in his flight log that the invasion force could be seen over the horizon and every direction at 14,000 feet.
I'm not sure, but his ship was headed to Japan when we bombed Hiroshima (or Nagasaki), I don't have much info because he only talked about it in generalities. I only know about this because he told my bro when my brother was adult. He may have been in Hawaii for a short time. He was a graduate of the Navy Hospital Corpsman school in (I believe), Norfolk VA. He developed a lifelong love of all things grits. I think we were the only kids in NJ who grits and eggs on a regular basis.
Ah, my dad met my mom when he was on New Calidonia. He spoke English, she, French, talked for about 5 minutes, he got her name and address, they wrote during the war, and when the war was over, he went back to the island married her and brought her to the states. I guess she is considered a war bride.
If the naval battle group was heading to Japan after the bomb was dropped, that would be considered the final invasion of Japan if necessary my dad was a part of it, he was on the Lexington and Hornet earlier and then the Enterprise aircraft carriers, he was an aviator, and he described in his flight log that the invasion force could be seen over the horizon and every direction at 14,000 feet.