South Pacific, November 2016
I was looking through a World War II scrapbook that belonged to Ed Gardiner, Kathy's father. It had very old black & white pictures and some small text of his time in the navy fighting in Europe and at the end in the Pacific. This is a note in his own hand writing of a place/beach he experienced in 1945. He was soon to head out towards Japan, to help end the war against the Japanese.
My strategy on how to find the location of the coconut grove picture in Ed's album - was to take a local World War II tour and have my guide show me where he thought this particular location was. The tour was amazing and I learned a lot about how the troops lived (including Ed) and how quickly they departed. At the end of the tour, my guide stopped at a location behind the main market in town. This is where he thought the photo was taken. I decided to get one more opinion - and that is another blog - Pastor Tony
