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<blockquote data-quote="mstang67chic" data-source="post: 290787" data-attributes="member: 2459"><p>I did some research for husband and father in law awhile back on father in law's father, W. W died in WWII during Iwo Jima. He was on a naval ship that was attacked by shore based artillary and was killed during the attack. I actually was able to track down a man who was onboard during the same time and he's given me some neat stuff. I got a copy of an unoffical log one of the crew wrote that details the days preceeding the attack as well as the attack itself and the resulting clean up. (and some of THOSE details were a bit gory) The best thing he gave us though was a letter. After the attack (W wasn't the only one to be killed), the captain asked for volunteers to write the next of kin of the killed sailors. These letters were in addition to the official notice they recieved but with more of a personal touch. The man I contacted turned out to be one of two men who co-wrote a letter to husband's grandmother (I didn't know this when I found him). She wrote a letter back and THAT was the letter that this man gave us. I was amazed that I tracked this guy down and simply ASTONISHED that he still had the letter from husband's grandmother. father in law has all of this stuff now and was very touched to receive it. He was only 2 when his father died and I don't think he really had that much connecting him to W. </p><p></p><p>The naval ship that W was on is actually still around. It's in Peru, South America but it's around. One of these years I would love to take husband to Iwo Jima (I have the coordinates of where the ship was and where W was buried at sea) and also to Peru to see the ship. I don't know that it will ever happen but it's something to shoot for.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Step and Janet...the stuff that you guys have is neat enough in itself. The fact that some of it is personal....even better!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mstang67chic, post: 290787, member: 2459"] I did some research for husband and father in law awhile back on father in law's father, W. W died in WWII during Iwo Jima. He was on a naval ship that was attacked by shore based artillary and was killed during the attack. I actually was able to track down a man who was onboard during the same time and he's given me some neat stuff. I got a copy of an unoffical log one of the crew wrote that details the days preceeding the attack as well as the attack itself and the resulting clean up. (and some of THOSE details were a bit gory) The best thing he gave us though was a letter. After the attack (W wasn't the only one to be killed), the captain asked for volunteers to write the next of kin of the killed sailors. These letters were in addition to the official notice they recieved but with more of a personal touch. The man I contacted turned out to be one of two men who co-wrote a letter to husband's grandmother (I didn't know this when I found him). She wrote a letter back and THAT was the letter that this man gave us. I was amazed that I tracked this guy down and simply ASTONISHED that he still had the letter from husband's grandmother. father in law has all of this stuff now and was very touched to receive it. He was only 2 when his father died and I don't think he really had that much connecting him to W. The naval ship that W was on is actually still around. It's in Peru, South America but it's around. One of these years I would love to take husband to Iwo Jima (I have the coordinates of where the ship was and where W was buried at sea) and also to Peru to see the ship. I don't know that it will ever happen but it's something to shoot for. Step and Janet...the stuff that you guys have is neat enough in itself. The fact that some of it is personal....even better! [/QUOTE]
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