This years Veterans day is the 100th
anniversary of the end of WWI the war to end all wars. It is also the
129th anniversary of when Washington became a state in
1889. Neither of my grandparents were in WWI, Anton Hansen was too
old born in 1870 and the oldest that had to register for service were
born in 1872. Charles Kelly was a railroad worker and of prime age
for a soldier, but railroad workers were not drafted. He did fill out
a draft registration card though.
Here is three photos of my uncle Leigh
Hansen taken in May of 1919, not quite 6 years old yet. He did serve
in WWII as an aircraft mechanic, spent most of the war in Arizona,
but was in Panama for four months in the spring 1943.
My dad Claude Hansen was 12 when WWI ended, and like
his brother Leigh he served in WWII also. He was in a service
squadron that serviced the B-17 and B-24 bombers. They started here
in Spokane, went to England, then north Africa and finally in Italy.
Here is a photo of their camp at San Severo Italy. Pop ran the motor pool, keeping all the vehicles they had running.
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