This is Dean A. Methvin, husband to Ellee Turner Methvin. Dean was a Gunner's Mate aboard the USS Enterprise during WWII. He was aboard her during all but her final three battles of the war, when he was medically discharged for a wound. Dean earned two purple hearts and two bronze stars during his time in the Navy. His plane was shot down several times, and he was wounded in the head and the leg (the wound that earned his discharge). One of the times his plane was shot down, the pilot was killed. They both landed in the ocean, and Dean kept the pilot afloat until a ship arrived to rescue him.
It took me until this year to figure out why my family always called him Uncle Al and everyone else called him Uncle Dean.
ReplyDeleteI guess my grandma decided to call him Al, not sure what reason, and that's how we grew up knowing him.
What an absolute honor to have such a decorated soldier in our family.
Oh how i miss the chickadee comments :) Mandy Frisch!
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