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. I awoke in the gloomy, or the victim of a telemarketing call at 4:47am from,ironically, an alleged veteran’s association in the States. I could not descend back asleep and so decided watch the dawn’s blue-gray fingers creep across the horizon. As the sky lightened I saw... Read the rest of this entry »
Source: navalhistory.org