Reply To: D-Day 74th Anniversary- Family History

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Not specific to D-Day but my paternal grandfather worked for a telephone company and set up phone exchanges throughout Texas at all the newly built airfields. My paternal grandmother volunteered in the army hospitals treating wounded servicemen.

My maternal grandmother was a rivet inspector in a plant that built B-24 Liberators. My maternal grandfather was a gunners mate on the USS Zellars, a destroyer, and fought in the South Pacific.

I have a letter he wrote my mother on the most amazingly thin piece of paper, specifically made to save weight for the war effort. It’s from a March of 1945 and the dateline is only Somewhere in the Soouth Pacific, because of wartime security measures. It describes his shore leave on an unnamed Pacific island and the little shells he found to send to my mother.