A Request for Information - please link!

[mary_j_59]

Please link to this post, pass it on, tell people about it - this is a very long shot, but I think the more people it reaches, the better chance we have of succeeding. Here's the story, very briefly:
My Dad was talking about his experience in the Navy in Hutchinson, Kansas, during WWII. He was in the medical corps, and had a good friend called Johnny Hansen (not sure of the spelling of the last name). Dad played organ for Johnny's wedding - this would probably have been in 1945. My Dad is Gerard Johnson, and his friends call him Gerry. If anyone knows a Johnny Hansen or Hanson who was in the Navy and stationed in Hutchinson during WWII, please have them contact me! I know this is a long shot, but Dad would love to know what happened to Johnny and his family.

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[puckling.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm not sure how helpful this would be, but I did find a website for WWII vets (http://ww2.vet.org/). Unfortunately, it's very much a website built in 1997, alas.

...also the Navy, in Kansas? That would not be the branch I would expect to find there. What was your father stationed there for?

probably here

[msstacy13.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutchinson_Naval_Air_Station

Re: probably here

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

Yes, that is the place! I'll correct my spelling above (not the world's greatest speller, anyway- )

[mary-j-59.livejournal.com]

My Dad was talking about that, too. He said there were a lot of comments like that, but the flatness of Kansas was actually like the sea. "The sea isn't always stormy, you know," he said. "Sometimes it's flat." It was also a great place for airport runways, of course, and it was an airfield. See the link below - she found it! (But not Mr. Hansen, yet.)

Thanks for your own link, but it broke Firefox! Not very easy to navigate, alas. But I'll try again later.

[puckling.livejournal.com]

No worries, that website didn't look to good anyway.

http://www.archives.gov/research/ww2/ww2-participation.pdf

http://www.nationalww2museum.org/calendar/research-a-veteran.html


Here's some government tips on how to find WWII vets, so maybe those will be of more use.

"The sea isn't always stormy, you know," he said. "Sometimes it's flat."

:P, sophistry. There's always waves!