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Hi Tony:
It took 57 years for my father to receive another Silver Star thats how carefully records were kept, misplaced and lost. The last silver star was for assisting in the repair of the EAGLE BEAVER during flight saving the plane and crew. A few years ago, my mother started insisting that dad speak about the war and answer questions. Before like most of the WW2 survivors, he would not talk about it because in his words "all of my good friends were killed". Sadly, there have been children and grandchildren of deceased airmen contact my father for ANY information on their loved one that they never knew because they were killed in the war. My parents are going to send me clippings from newspapers about the war. But my mother did a bad thing...she burned all her letters from Dad to her because she said they were personal (but they included talk of the war too). She didnt want people reading her mail after she died. They were not married until after the war. Im not sure if the letters he wrote to his mother still exist. I saw them when I was young and they were quite detailed about the war environment.