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Originally Posted by Seahawk
Very moving...
My wife's step father was a PT boat crewman...left Yale, flunked out of flight school and spent the next three years in the South Pacific.
Great Dude.
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Ask him if he remembers John Lupa...from Detroit...John was my Daddys 1St cozin.
John passed away in 1995 at 84 years...John was in the same PT Boat squadron as JFK and knew him very well as they lived in the same Quonset Hut in the Solomons...Johns oldest son has a Machete signed by all the members of that Squadron including JFK.
After the war John was involved with the PT Boat vets org...after John passed away his wife gave me a PT Boat Patch...I believe if memory serves me well it is from a PT Boat Squadron based in the Philiphines and will get a pic as soon as my camera battery recharges..
I asked John about JFK the only thing he said was that he was quite an indivdual as he had already had a best seling book. He also mentioned that all the guys would brag about the woman they were with except for JFK.