Letter From
VPB-208 Member Andy Knef in Tokyo Bay |
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This
Envelope and letter are postmarked in Tokyo Bay. Its return
address
Andrew H Kneff AMM 3/c VPB 208 c/o FBO San Francisco, Calif Dated Sept 2, 1945 Tokyo Bay |
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From:Andy Knef
1:09 PM Subject: VPB-208 To: jwstephens -at - cox.net CC: Jatoamk -at- cs.com Hi Jim, Glad to hear that some of the guys from 208 are still alive----haven't been able to get in touch with anyone from my crew.. I never got around to getting the book that Walter Schuman put out- but I have a copy of the squadron book Peter Bogie Mike, it has a picture of each of the squadrons crews and their address as on 1945. ( I have no idea if there is any more copies available yet) Did Walt tell you about VPNavy site, it has all the seaplane squadrons in it----the site address is < www.vpnavy.com> just in case you don't have it. I go back to it every once in a while---in hopes of finding one of my crewmen. I don't recall all the fellows in the squadron , but we did see a lot of action, the ship we were billeted on was the USS Hamlin AV-15, I recall that the friggen ship's skipper, Capt G. A. Mc Lean, had that ship painted and repainted the whole time time we were aboard. Chip and paint-chip and paint, someone said that Nimitz wanted to know who was using all that damn paint. Did your Dad ever send a letter home from Japan that we were there a few days before the surrender? I'll ktry and attacht it to this note. Just off hand I can't think of too much else to tell you lbut will keep in touch. Give you Dad my best regards Andy Knef |
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Louis Stephens (my Father, VPB-208 crew L) was
on his way home to leave the service and probably was not in Tokyo Bay with the squadron. |