Memorial Day - 2019. Add to it.

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5. O. H. Wright 1923-2013 and Freddie Tucker Wright 1921-2018

My parents:


Dad, OH, was a Lieutenant j.g. on a sub in Pacific during WWII. While serving on the USS Spot he obtained documents from a sinking ship. He received the Navy and Marine Medal for that.

As Spot came down the west coast of Korea, she sighted a small ship and fired her last three torpedoes. All ran shallow and missed. With only 1,300 rounds of 20 mm ammunition remaining, the submarine closed to 800 yards (730 m) and opened fire. The enemy made an unsuccessful attempt to ram. No one manned the Japanese ship's machine gun atop her pilot house; her top deck was in shambles; and the ship was dead in the water but not sinking.[9]

Spot waited for an hour and then sent over a boarding party of seven men to plant demolition charges and search for intelligence material. After about ten minutes on board, the party had to abandon as the ship listed to port and sank by the stern. The boarding party was recovered and one Japanese prisoner taken. The submarine returned to Midway on 30 January for a refit and training period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Spot_(SS-413)#First_patrol,_December_1944_%E2%80%93_January_1945

Dad was the man carrying the demolition charges.

Mom was a Navy Nurse, stationed in Virginia Beach, Camp Pendleton, and Hawaii. They met after the war and got married in San Francisco Feb 1946. She treated Marines coming back from Iwo Jima.