I've added some more to my grandfather's story as a naval artist during WWII. He published two books describing his experiences, which I've put up on the web site: North Atlantic Patrol and Victory at Midway.

I've been slowly working on putting up his reports written during a trip around the world, in late 1943 and the first part of 1944. They are harder to do since they are copies of typewritten reports that he sent in every two weeks. My OCR won't recognize a lot of it so my daughter Jenny has been typing them. I already have the reports of his preparing to leave on the site. I now have his description of sailing to England on the Queen Mary, staying in England trying to find his luggage, trying to get a ride to Cairo and his flights to Morocco and Egypt and the beginning of his time in North Africa.

He wrote these reports as a basis for another book that was never written. Except for one or two other members of my family, this is the first time others have a chance to read about what he saw and experienced 59 years ago during a World War.

My grandfather died in 1950. I was five. It's strange to think that my grandfather was five years younger than I am now when he wrote these reports.