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Originally Posted by Danimal16
A Seabee!!!!
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No Dan, he passed many years ago, but he lived a long and full life. He was a welder. During WWII, a lot of Liberty ships suffered cracked prop shafts that put them out of commission because they couldn't weld them in place while at sea. My uncle asked for and was given a crack at it. He succeeded and trained others how to do it.
When he finished his hitch the Navy hired him and set him up in a lab at Lehigh University in PA, designed and built to his specifications, where he was given free reign to do research, refine and develop welding techniques that were used in the war effort.
At one point in his life he welded in place the top component of an antenna that was at the time the very top point of the Empire State Building.
He was a trout fisherman and a deer hunter, a long time member of a group of ball and cap riflemen in eastern PA.
I miss him.