On my father’s side, he had an older brother who was a tac-officer at USMA for the entire war. Didn’t hurt his career any, though; he retired as a Major General. My father also had two younger brothers, one was commissioned out of ROTC in 1940 and spent the war with the 13th Infantry Regiment, 8th Division in the ETO; winding up the war as a battalion commander. He retired as a Colonel in 1970. The youngest brother was USMA ’42 and went in the AAF. A P-47 squadron commander and a Lieutenant Colonel, he was shot down and killed in January 1945 near Hamburg. My father’s sister’s were also married to service members. Don’t know much about his older sister’s husband (she was some 11 years older than my father) except he was also a career officer who retired in the late 1950’s as a Colonel. His younger sister married a naval officer who served in destroyers in the Pacific. He retired as a Captain in the 1970’s. My father was a naval aviator, commissioned in June 1938, spent the requisite two years in the fleet, and earning his wings in November 1940. A fighter pilot, he flew the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway and in the Solomons Campaign, credited with a total of 6 aerial victories (some web sources will say 8, but he says 6). After a year’s stint as a training officer in the FleetAirWest advance fighter training machine, he went back out in the fall of 1944 as an assistant operations officer on the TF-38 staff and served out the war there. He retired in 1971, a Rear Admiral. Oh yeah, all these guys in the service … my grandfather was an Army officer. Served as an enlisted man in the Spanish War, was commissioned in 1901, served in the Philippines, was 5th Div Comm Officer in the Great War, and retired a Colonel in 1935. At one time, around 1928 or so, he commanded the same 13th Infantry Regiment in which his son, my uncle, later served in the ETO.
On my mother’s side there were only two boys. Both were in the army. The oldest was in the QM corps, a sergeant, and served in the ETO. He came back and went to OCS, finished college and stayed in the Army, retiring a Lieutenant Colonel in the mid 1960s. The youngest served in the South Pacific as a sergeant in the amphibious engineers. He left the army after the war and embarked on a successful sales career. Of all these folks only my father and his older brother are still with us.

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I wonder what this button does . . .