I imagine my grandfather was their paymaster at some point. He was stationed on the Canopus in Manila on Dec 7, eventually escaped on a sub with (as he always told me) was a million in US & Filipino dollars. He was soon a paymaster on a pacific island for sub crews, had to determine everyones pay without any records, which seems mind boggling. He must have lost friends all through the war, from the Bataan Death March to ship crews.

He wrote out his story, which I saved here https://chuckosborne.wordpress.com/

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