My friend, Marvin Perrett, was a proud military man who did not let the history of World War II fade. He gave lectures to any organization that would listen, he involved himself in the building of the New Orleans, now National, World War II Museum.
He went back to Normandy in the 1990's and visited the family and the woman (then a young girl) who had befriended him. I was glad he did.
Marvin died only a few days after this photo was taken, hopefully peacefully sitting in his chair in his home.
He served in World War II with the Coast Guard and served aboard the U.S.S. Bayfield, piloting a New Orleans made Higgins landing craft at the invasions of D Day Normandy, southern France and Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
In this photo he was demonstrating to modern day Coast Guardsmen how the Higgins craft operated before it was to be placed in the Museum. Blessed memory.