Lieutenant Leroy Fadem recently revisited sites in the Pacific where he saw action in the Navy during the tumultuous years of the War in the Pacific over 70 years ago. This is a journal of that recent trip as kept by his son,Steven Fadem, who accompanied Lt. Fadem on that journey of rediscovery. Back in 1944 when Dad traveled from Honolulu to Guam on the Stevens it took over a week at sea. nowadays we made the journey in a little over eight hours, and with two meals,some wine, a film and air conditioning. The juxtaposition is stunning. The world... Read the rest of this entry »
Source: navalhistory.org