On December 7, 1941 My Father, Alfred Carl Nielsen Jr. was serving as a missionary in California. (Part of the Western States Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) By January of 1942 he had been released from his missionary duties and had enlisted in the United States Navy. He served on a Navy patrol craft, PC 583. I found this stack of pictures of the men he served with. I recently started scanning them and trying to put together a presentation. This gives us some insight into how they lived and interacted with each other on board a small ship for months at sea.
My dad is second from the right on the bottom row on page three.
My dad is second from the right on the bottom row on page three.