Remembering a veteran who served 80 years ago: my Dad.
Pictured below, third from the left.
He volunteered during WWII to serve as a Chaplain even though he was married with two children. He felt he needed to do his part and reached out to the brass in the Pentagon in charge of Army chaplains to make his case for enlisting.
He served from 1944-1947 first in New Caledonia then Fiji Islands before being transferred to Fort Ruger in Honolulu, Hawaii.
I don't know the occasion for the photo. Obviously everyone else has been awarded some trophy. Maybe he did the awarding but I just don't know. By 1946 he was in Hawaii where my Mom and older siblings got to join him.