my hero
I'm working on restoring a bunch of photos. This first one is my grandfather, Raymond "Hutch" Hutchins. He served in the U.S. Navy on the USS Mayo DD422 (Mighty Mayo - Destroyer Class) from 1940-1943. You can see him here as well with my grandmother, Mary (scroll down a bit). I have this photo also as an original and am working on restoring it. (Click on the photos back and forth here and you can see how I have cleaned them up.)
My grandad was a strong dude (an "old salt", rugged and intelligent they called him), and filled my head with hundreds of stories from WW2 any chance he had. What strikes me most was how proud he was to say he served, and the tight bonds he maintained until he died to his shipmates.
Posted by Brett Houle
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