Met a WWII Fighter Pilot tonight ***UPDATE

I know my dad lived thru 4 years of WW11. he could not talk about it and even though just a kid I sensed that. I understood some of the mental scars he held.
I did hear just a little of what he did in the south pacific. his squadron were flying boomers with the guns removed and cameras installed for aerial recon. fighter jet escort. probably he was in a better place than ground fighting on those islands!? I have a couple of phots of his bunch on one of the islands.

after service ho could not set foot on a commercial airplane. he made their l;ast tripby car to visit me in "83 the year before he passed.