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Originally Posted by Boreas
The night before the invasion would have been the night of December 7th, 1941. Pearl Harbor had already been attacked. It's likely that your grandfather was evacuated on the strength of that and perhaps because American PBYs had spotted the invasion fleet headed to the Philippines.
John
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I would think an old shellback with that funny award you get for crossing the International Date Line wouldn't get his dates mixed up unless he was under the thrall of those beauteous Phillipino ladies of the night and rum - at the time.
+1 on the Catalina flying boats (PBY) spotting some funny goings on.
I forget the name of that patrol boat on the Yellow? Pearl? river prior to WW2 but that incident had to be in the fore of any USN GWF sailor's mind leading up to Dec.7th.