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ť Topic: Dan Brunson
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I was doing research for my scrap book on my father in-laws time on Pt 156. during 1944. I was at the PT museum in TN, working with Alyce for a couple days this week, Monday & Tuesday.

As the gathering is done for the scrap book, I asked her advice for putting it together. She had a wonderful suggestion to have a forward written by a crew member. Alyce and her daughter Allyson felt that Dan Brunson would be a great choice for me. I was very excited to meet him from their discription of him and they thought he would be happy to do it and he would do a great job of telling in a few paragraph's his own perspective of the time. I loved the idea and was so excited to talk to him about it.

I called Dan as soon as I got back this morning. His sweet wife told me that Dan had died, This April 15, of a massive stroke. She was thankful he did not suffer.
He had just turned 88 on April 2,2012

Posted By: MN Gal | Posted on: May 9, 2012 - 9:22am
Total Posts: 126 | Joined: Jan 4, 2012 - 7:57am

Mr. Brunson was RM 2/C on the 156. He does have a real nice write up he made in the Book Knights of the Sea that you may want to check out.
My sympathies to his family.
Gary

Posted By: Gary Paulsen | Posted on: May 9, 2012 - 11:37am
Total Posts: 249 | Joined: Feb 14, 2009 - 6:31am

Such a shame. God Bless him.............

Posted By: Frank J Andruss Sr | Posted on: May 9, 2012 - 12:35pm
Total Posts: 3497 | Joined: Oct 9, 2006 - 6:09am