07-30-2011, 10:10 PM
Recently I was looking at a 1943 Ellensburg highschool yearbook that belonged to my Dad or one of his siblings. Inside it I found four loose photos of a WWII Minesweeper and it's crew. The men's names were hand written on the back but none that I would recognize. The vessel is the USS YMS-398...shown here at Subic Bay, Luzon..The Phillipines. One of these pictures is of 5 happy-faced young guys labeled: "The Jolly Five" Civilians, dated May 27, 1946. They have survived WWII in the Pacific and are finally going home...Look at those young faces!
