My Grandfather(left) Pfc Paul Compton and a friend of his. Taken before they boarded the Queen Mary in New York.
May 1942

My Grandad

Loren Wilkerson, Pearl Harbor abt 1944

Here is an extract from my Grandfather`s diary "Then the firing started and the Japs knew we were there, they started throwing grenades down at us and as the grenades had a small red glow on the end we could see them coming down in the dark. One could only hope they would pass you before exploding, a lad next to me was hit and killed" The diary is quite a harrowing read and brings a tear to my eye everytime I read it know what he went through. I`m just glad he made it back in one peice !