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Post by victor on Oct 14, 2013 10:54:00 GMT 8
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Post by okla on Oct 14, 2013 23:09:50 GMT 8
Hey Vic....Very interesting. I couldn't help but imagine some Sailor, way out there in the PI, escaping the economic Depression back in the US, dropping a line to a relative,etc back home, who was out of work, standing in a "bread line", etc whilst he was soaking up 5 cent beers in some "dive" on a lazy, humid, tropical evening with a "local" beauty wiping his fevered brow. Life in the peace time Navy in a, so called, tropical paradise, certainly beat conditions some were enduring in the States in those days. I may have, in the past, told you about a neighbor of mine, when in High School, who in the late 1920s, served two years on Corregidor, "serving the big guns", as he described it. Mister McNeal said it was a good life, beating "looking a mule in the butt" all day on his boyhood farm. Thanks for posting. It surely triggered my, usually too-active, imagination. Cheers
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Post by chadhill on Oct 15, 2013 8:13:56 GMT 8
Great find, Victor.
A guess on the name: William H. Olson, Huron, South Dakota ?
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Post by victor on Oct 15, 2013 10:41:54 GMT 8
Okla, indeed... I can imagine how much of a dream duty station it was. It seemed to me looking at the pictures that it was like a resort town, except you were in the army or navy. Chadhill... how can you even read that? All I could make out was South Dakota. Good eye! I'll post a clearer scan when I receive it. I don't have it yet.
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Post by okla on Oct 15, 2013 19:47:42 GMT 8
Hey Chad....Your usually expert eye, methinks, has deciphered that address to a "T". Also, "Olson" fits the Scandnavian ethnic majority of the area. Maybe a relative of Lawrence Welk (or was Lawrence a North Dakota lad???)lol. Good work!!!!
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Post by victor on Oct 19, 2013 8:47:16 GMT 8
Not that much clearer... photobucket downgrades the quality of photos uploaded to it now.
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