My sisters and I have been carefully going through my fathers War chests, (he has 4 full of all his Navy stuff) and we have been finding so much very cool stuff that I would like to share with you all as time goes by. We have so much to do with my fathers estate. What a pain in the *ss. But every now and then, we stop the "no-fun" stuff to look at the "fun-stuff" like photos and great items my father collected over the years, but his Navy chests are what I really enjoy looking at. Many of these items I have never seen, yet alone knew he had. Well I have several scrap books of his Navy career, purple hearts (2) I have found, ... I have no idea about so much of my fathers career, but I have a lot of research to do. Many, many photo albums though. Lots of photos of Hellcats, Corsairs, aircraft carriers, etc.
Now to what this thread is about. I have about 12 reels of gun camera film. I know it's gun camera film because I held some of it up to the light and could see some of what was on it. I'm not a film expert, so I wonder if there is anyone out there who can direct me to someone who can take this film and convert it in some way to a DVD or something so we all can view it. I could see some scenes of Japanese ships being straffed, etc.
These chests are very cool as well, they have squadron ensignias on them and lots of uniforms, mae west, my fathers sidearm and holster, so much stuff. One problem is my older sisters are preventing me from getting too carried away with the chests until most of the rest of the estate matters are cleaned up ...
, I'm 45 and they still treat me like I'm the baby ... boo hoo!!! ... I still love em though, so I am excited to share as much as I can with you all as time goes by ... If your interested, ... remember I'm not trying to blow my fathers own horn, I just thought some of you might enjoy seeing a little WW2 Navy time capsule items and possibly some interesting gun camera film.