ON my recent trip to NJ to visit my mom,, i found 2 pics of my dad from WWII, in the pacific, where he was on the Mariannnas islands for almost 3 years ..HE was a mechaninc, whose job it was to go up in the planes, and listen for the bad noises and go back and then work on the planes. i wish i had listenend to his stories more, wh en I was younger lol,but since he died a few years ago, at age 91,, i have a better appreciation for th em now, that i,m older too H e never had any fond memories of the army, and never liked any military things after that either,, AND he had a bad fear of flying in big planes, alw asy afraid he would hear noises that would be bad and scare him.when i moved from NJ to san francisco, a long time ago,, he had to start flying more, but eventually he got kind of used to i think LOL:BUT he would always tell me where to sit, like dont sit in the front, dont sit way in the back, sit behind the wing, etc LOL.HE also only felt MORE secure in little small planes, which made no sense to me, casue i was more afraid to small on any smaller plane, but he felt the pilot was more in charge then of the whole plane himself. HIs one other story, which he told me, was how his commanding officers "Lost" him for 6 weeks once. lol,.. and he wasnt happy bout that. They had sent him to another island nearby with parts for planes, and were supoosed to come pick him up the next AM> instead, noone came back, and they didnt know where he was supposed to go, so he lived in a tent with otherr soldiers there, that he didnt know for 6 weeks, till someone came back for him then. HE was not fond of this episode at all tho too.It didint sound that bad to me at th e time,, but he said it was not a good experience tho . OK< wel l i just thoight i would post these pics, in his honor for memorial day, and hope u guys enjoy seeing them too ricki P.s. MY dad was never as skinny as he was in the one pic by his plane LOL