My father in law was a LT in Coast Guard in WW2.
He was assigned to Landing Ship Tank 765 from September 1944 to December 1945.
My wife found the following calendar from 1945 while he toured the hot spots in the South Pacific.
The post 1 year was the date he received his officers commission.

son of a biscuit this looks cool but it is waaay to large to view, can you resize it say 30% of original size

^^^^^ This! No way I'll view those at their current size.

Jim

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Didn't take long to go from at war to at cat houses in Japan....

The scans were at 300 pixels cut the size to 9 inches and 150 pixels hope it works now.

Very cool posting! Clearly a man of strong faith. Then again if I were active duty back then I would likely be more devout than I am.

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Originally posted by slabsides45:
Didn't take long to go from at war to at cat houses in Japan....

I believe you are misreading that entry. What you read as “C” is actually part of the arrow drawn to the date, as he did countless other places on the calendar. What I read is “[arrow] at Honshu Japan.” It’s hard to believe that someone would use a religious themed calendar to record going to a brothel. (And that’s an example of why people still need to know how to read cursive. )

That’s a very neat piece of history. It’s very interesting to tie it to events at the time. I also interpret the numbers by each day when he was at Okinawa as the number of air raids they experienced. He spells it out the first two times (“in Okinawa 1 raid” and “5 air raids”), but it looks like the rest of the time he just recorded the number.

September 3rd. Worked like hell. It was Labor Day...

Thanks for sharing, Good stuff.

Very cool, thanks for posting. My dad was also all over the Pacific towards the end of the war. They sure did get around.

Absolutely, quite cool!

That was fascinating, thanks!
I was impressed by the number of air raids around Okinawa.

There was a lot of traveling going on, he was all over the Pacific!

He mentioned, Osaka, my uncle in the Service ended up in Osaka after the war. He has talked about the devastation he saw.

My step father was stationed in Leyte. Everyone has the false misconception, that the day the war ended in the Pacific, all the GI's left for home.

Not so, according to his records, he didn't leave Leyte until the next year.

Thank you for posting that treasure.

Wonderful history to be preserved. Good on him. A hero in my book.

That is very neat. I saved it to honor him.

My Grandfather's ship was sunk off Okinawa on May 9th. USS Oberrender- they may have crossed paths, though unlikely for an O to mix with an E (he was a TM1).

What a marvelous piece of personal history and record of service during the war! We often think of the personal letters exchanged between service members and their families as a means of learning about their service and what they experienced, or possibly even journals, but, up until this post, I had never considered calendars.

Come to think of it, growing up, calendars used to be a bigger part of our lives and were used to not just determine the day/ date but also to record (briefly) events. Kind of a shame that we don't do more of that now, as they seem to be used more often for planning purposes today.

I've got a 94 year old friend who was a U.S. Navy sailor in WW II...next time I talk to him I'm going to ask if he kept a calendar or a journal or letters from that time.

Thanks for sharing!

They used to sell small charts with a ships picture in the ships stores. You could record your travels on them. During my career I recorded every port visit and the date. Since I was forward deployed most of the time it's a pretty freakin' long list.

That calendar reminded me if my great-grandmother.
She had several items from that same publisher. Most memorable were the Warner Sallman lithographs.

Got to admit my first thoughts of a Saliors Calendar wasn't one with a religious theme, although it makes more sense when reading the obove comments about going to sea, war and god.

I was thinking we'd see some ww2 pin up girl pictures. Just goes to show ya never know...

That's pretty cool, and a great family history piece.