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[StartQuote] Hello All, Easter Greetings. I have been working at getting my Father In-Law's Story put all together for this Fathers Day for my husband. I have had the privilage of being able to ask Earl questions of what it was like for a guy in the last few weeks. He has shared what it was like Traveling to California on a troop train and shipping out not really knowing where you were going just to name a few. His experiance and my Father In-laws were very similar as far as where they were sent and at the same approx. time. Earl went on to Ron 3 and Robert R Rocheleau went on to Ron 9 Earls help has been breathing life into the information I have gotten from my father in-law's military records. From his military records,( I am very thankful to have) but they dont tell you how it was on a personal level. Earl thought it would be a good idea to put this question to the message board. My Father In-law was in Ron 9 PT 156 He arrived at New Caledonia November 1943, left on LCI (L) 436 enroute to Guadalcanal November 26,1943. He was assigned to MTB sqd.9 on Dec.4,1943 Steve N from the message board found him coming aboard the 156 Feb. 23 1944 I dont know what he was doing up to that point, besides being with Ron 9. He must have been doing what ever he needed to do to qualify for getting his GM rating. But what else? The time span between assigned to ron 9 and getting on the 156 is Dec 4 to Feb 23. His records say that he was in 4 Invasions. I dont know if that is the right term. I will state what his records say. Participated in offensive Motor Torpedo Boat operations from Advance Bases during the Northern Solomon Islands Campaign from 4 DEC 1943 to 19 MAY 1944 (1) star for Treasury-Bougainville Operation (1) Star for Bismarc Archipelago Operations. Another paper in his records says, Participated in offensive Motor Torpedo Boat Operations from Advance Bases in the Dutch New Guinea Area and the Molucca Archipelago (Halmahera) from 20 June 1944 to 3 November 1944 Eligeble to wear one star on the Asiatic Pacific Area Ribbon for the Dutch New Guinea Campaign, and one star for the Molucca Archipelago Campaign when Authorized. OK, Now here is the question, What does that mean? I want to know what that was like for a guy. What did they do? Was it fighting from the boat? He was a Gm2c His GQ was the 37mm. I have been picking photo's from many sources, running them past Earl. He would tell me if the photo was a hit or a miss. I want to put photo's to some of the information, maps of the places Ron 9 was. But I dont know what kind of experiance would have gone with this information. Did they go ashore and fight? In the past I have posted his photo's to the message board. There are photo's of his fresh boyish face leaving bootcamp and 2 years later there is a mug shot type photo, he looked like he aged 15 years. He would never talk about the war. I wonder if you guy's can tell me what you think he might have experienced ? I know we will not know for sure what all he saw and experianced, but i would like to have an educated guess. Thank you for any input you might have. Julie [EndQuote]
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