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Shipmates, USS LA Vallette: 1944

My father Bud Boust & his shipmates on the USS. La Vallette a Navy Destroyer Ship on Guadacanal weeks later they were hit my father survived but spents many months at the Yosemite Naval hospital. He's in the upper left corner as your looking at it laughing at the fellow trying to work his camera it was a gift his mother gave him as he pulled out of port in SF. I wish I knew the names of the other fellows some may still be alive but I don't. View full size.

My father Bud Boust & his shipmates on the USS. La Vallette a Navy Destroyer Ship on Guadacanal weeks later they were hit my father survived but spents many months at the Yosemite Naval hospital. He's in the upper left corner as your looking at it laughing at the fellow trying to work his camera it was a gift his mother gave him as he pulled out of port in SF. I wish I knew the names of the other fellows some may still be alive but I don't. View full size.

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The sailors all look happy but the locals all look suspicous and somewhat menacing. At first glance, this looks like a scene out of the musical "South Pacific" but we all know it was a rough, tough and life-changing battleground. Gratitude to your father and all these boys for their selfless service.

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