The top photo is identified as Mom, me and Georgann at Newport Beach in 1952. This is probably at the small beach that was only a couple of doors down from Grandma and Grandpa's house on the water. The second photograph is of dad, Georgann and me, "Xmas '52," a few months after the first photograph. Obviously, as with all families, photographs abound during the holidays. Dad may have only recently returned from the service and Japan. He was shipped over to Japan, probably the year before. I think that, once there, he was going to be shipped to Korea itself, but he decided to get out. He'd already been a P.O.W. in a German camp in WWII. I think he did not want to run the risk of being shot down and captured once again, so he resigned his commission. He would remain in, or later join, the Air Force Reserves, retiring as a Lt. Colonel; but his days of active service came to an end, apparently, in 1952, before the second photo was taken.
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