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Wife of WWII Soldier Spent Decades on Husband’s Wish to Reunite Japanese Family With Photo Album He Found on Okinawa

February 19, 2023 by Leo

With persistence, belief, and the amount of sheer dumb luck normally needed to win the lottery, a Portland senior tracked down a Japanese family based on the photos left behind in an album her late husband plucked from the shrapnel-strewn beaches of Okinawa in 1945. Strangers, friends of friends, and non-English speakers all pitched in […]

Source: Wife of WWII Soldier Spent Decades on Husband’s Wish to Reunite Japanese Family With Photo Album He Found on Okinawa

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