Jack was a Gunner’s Mate from 1942-46 in the Naval Armed Guard in World War II, a special Naval branch that defended merchant ships against enemy attack, on the troop transport ships USS Cape Meares in the Battle of the North Atlantic (’42-’43) and USAT Etolin in the South Pacific (’43-’45). Armed Guard service was fraught with danger, suffering, and staggering casualty rates, yet one veteran wrote “The Armed Guard hasn’t had as much publicity as the average two-headed calf.” Jack also served as a Gun Captain on the Edsall-class destroyer escort USS Finch as part of a Convoy Support Group of anti-submarine warships actively deployed to attack submarines while protecting convoys crossing the Atlantic between the East Coast and England, Ireland and France and back, helping end the war in Europe (’45) and the Pacific (’45-‘46) as the Finch patrolled from Hawaii through the Marshall Islands and the Mariana Islands (Aug. ’45). Allied prisoners captured on Corregidor from “hell-camps” on Formosa (now Taiwan) where they had been held under brutal conditions (’46). Jack is 94 and resides in Newport Beach.