The Hospital Ship Manunda that Dad served on as a Medical Orderly towards the close of World War II. He witnessed the end of the war in the islands, particularly Morotai, and was one of a ship full of eager medical staff and crew, flexing their muscles and ready to bring home the boys that had suffered as prisoners of war under the hands of the Japanese. While in Singapore to pick up the men for home, he met his three cousins who had been incarcerated for three and a half years. They were very haggard and skeletal, and all he wanted to do was feed them up. Dad at first was a Staff sergeant, then Troop Captain and finally Lieutenant