USS Phoenix

Book Review: Brothers of War, by Lew Holt

ootfa — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:29:27 +0000

Book Review: Brothers of War, by Lew Holt

A remarkable book of letters and conversations, illustrating the value of ferreting out the historical context of an ancestor’s life and ways of telling the story.

Source: Genealogy Book Reviews

Published: 03/Dec/2011

Visiting with Lew

ootfa — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 06:32:47 +0000

Click Here Christmas 2011r

Alice and Lew wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

WWII Japanese photo album

ootfa — Fri, 14 May 2010 19:10:30 +0000

During WWII it was common for Japanese soldiers to carry photo albums. Such an album was found on New Guinea in 1942/43 by a cousin’s husband of Alice’s mother. April, 2010 NPR had an interview of a lady who had such an album and was looking for a relative of the man who had the album when he was in the army during WWII. I wrote to the blog and was answered by a Japanese grad student at Denver University. In a couple of weeks he located a daughter of one of the soldiers whose picture was in the album. I sent the album to her. I have not heard back from her.

Click the following web address to view the pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27980695@N02/

Fiddlers and Lew Holt

ootfa — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:22:21 +0000

Here is a web site that my friend, Dina, has written.

You might enjoy it, I bet you will. There is a lot of fiddle information.

http://home.comcast.net/~dina.shaylor/lew_chronicle/index.html

In the upper left corner click on Lew’s Archives to read his Sunday letters.

Or go to:

http://home.comcast.net/%7Edina.shaylor/lew_chronicle/articles/articles_index.html

Brothers of War

ootfa — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:49:01 +0000

Thanks for checking in with my blog. I have written a book about my brother at Pearl Harbor, the USS Phoenix leading to my brother’s death and the Phoenix being sunk during the Falkland Island War.

Please check the following web site for details on the book.