Nice picture! There was no smoking on weather decks when I was in. Would have been relaxing. Great heirloom!Fr_Tom":d9tu4fz6 said:I stumbled on this picture of my father from some point when he was in the Navy. It looks like a cob he is smoking.
This would have been WWII era, so maybe the rules were a little more relaxed wrt smoking back then.eklektos44":4o7fdqcr said:Nice picture! There was no smoking on weather decks when I was in. Would have been relaxing. Great heirloom!
Signalman and navigator in WWII - he served in Korea too.Terry292":zfw140ud said:A right arm rate. He must have been a deck ape of some sort (Boatswain's Mate) or a Gunner's Mate.
That makes sense. Boatswain's, Gunner's, Torpedoman's, and Signalman's Mates all wore their rate on the right sleeve until sometime in the 1950s. Dad was in the Navy, too, during WWII. He achieved the rate of Ship's Cook, 2nd Class on a Landing Craft, Tank (LCT) in the South Pacific. He didn't have much to say about his naval service, though, having survived the invasions of Peleliu and Okinawa. I salute your father for his service. Without the Greatest Generation, where would we be today?Fr_Tom":qqws8e76 said:Signalman and navigator in WWII - he served in Korea too.Terry292":qqws8e76 said:A right arm rate. He must have been a deck ape of some sort (Boatswain's Mate) or a Gunner's Mate.
My father did not talk much about his service either. He was on a ship that delivered Marines at the invasion of Guam. He was at Saipan just after the invasion. I know he served on the Gunston Hall at some point, because I remember the name. He was on some supply ship for a while that transfered things between ships.Terry292":00w21993 said:That makes sense. Boatswain's, Gunner's, Torpedoman's, and Signalman's Mates all wore their rate on the right sleeve until sometime in the 1950s. Dad was in the Navy, too, during WWII. He achieved the rate of Ship's Cook, 2nd Class on a Landing Craft, Tank (LCT) in the South Pacific. He didn't have much to say about his naval service, though, having survived the invasions of Peleliu and Okinawa. I salute your father for his service. Without the Greatest Generation, where would we be today?
Fr_Tom":ycjjerlm said:My father did not talk much about his service either. He was on a ship that delivered Marines at the invasion of Guam. He was at Saipan just after the invasion. I know he served on the Gunston Hall at some point, because I remember the name. He was on some supply ship for a while that transfered things between ships.Terry292":ycjjerlm said:That makes sense. Boatswain's, Gunner's, Torpedoman's, and Signalman's Mates all wore their rate on the right sleeve until sometime in the 1950s. Dad was in the Navy, too, during WWII. He achieved the rate of Ship's Cook, 2nd Class on a Landing Craft, Tank (LCT) in the South Pacific. He didn't have much to say about his naval service, though, having survived the invasions of Peleliu and Okinawa. I salute your father for his service. Without the Greatest Generation, where would we be today?
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