Jack and the War.

Jack Read's War. "memories--wouldn't trade them for a 'million' "

Jack home on leave after boot camp at Ellis Island, New York, in 1942. He lived in Brooklyn and didn't have to go far.
Note the one pipe on the sleeve cuff. Apprentice seamen wore their grade on the sleeve.
Jack with his mother and older brother in 1942. Note his brother is wearing a "wound chevron" from World War I. CMoMM Jack Read in London, May 1944 to pick up his CPO
uniforms.

Some remarks of the site owner. When working the aged and lovingly protected photographs of former Chief Motor Machinist's Mate Jack Read, USCG, I found myself shaking my head in acknowledgement of the scenes developing. It may be the association with war, but it is more likely the association and love we, the sailors of patrol craft, have for this type of boat and duty. Perhaps it is the jauntiness or the knowledge of the danger involved in going to sea in frail craft or it was just a defining moment in our lives. Bill Wells. July 19, 2001.

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Jack home on leave after boot camp at Ellis Island, New York, in 1942. He lived in Brooklyn and didn't have to go far. Note the one pipe on the sleeve cuff. Apprentice seamen wore their grade on the sleeve.	Jack with his mother and older brother in 1942. Note his brother is wearing a "wound chevron" from World War I.	CMoMM Jack Read in London, May 1944 to pick up his CPO uniforms.
Some remarks of the site owner. When working the aged and lovingly protected photographs of former Chief Motor Machinist's Mate Jack Read, USCG, I found myself shaking my head in acknowledgement of the scenes developing. It may be the association with war, but it is more likely the association and love we, the sailors of patrol craft, have for this type of boat and duty. Perhaps it is the jauntiness or the knowledge of the danger involved in going to sea in frail craft or it was just a defining moment in our lives. Bill Wells. July 19, 2001.
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