Rabu, 15 Februari 2017

Letters from Readers: World War II June 2014

Family History Revealed My father, Robert Leeson, and his brother, A. Dix Leeson, were featured in your article “Wooden Boats at War” (January/ February 2014). Although I tried many times to get my father to talk about battles along the New Guinea shore, he was always reluctant to really get into it with me. The …

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