Failed Attempt to Return Ten Photographs-- Part 1

From the May 22, 2015, Chicago Tribune "WWII photos give a glimpse of soldiers' sacrifice" by Bob Brown.

There were ten of them, black-and-white and sepia-toned photographs "of bare-chested young soldiers or groups of uniformed m,en who answered the call of duty for the country they loved in the early 1940s."

Most of them never made it home and were likely killed on some Pacific island.  Some of the estimated 2 million who died during World War II.

And, they weren't Americans.  They were our opponents, the Japanese.

These photos have been in Mr. Brown's family for 70 years, ever after his father, John Brown, who had joined the Marines as an underage 17-year-old in January 1942, little more than a month after Pearl Harbor.  he ended up fighting in battles in the Solomon and Marshall islands..  He took the photos as souvenirs.

Bob brown didn't know about the photos until after his father died 21 years ago and he got them.  He put them away in a book and didn't think about them until about a year ago when he came across them again.

A Piece of History.  --GreGen