Ed Shumaker was trained to serve as a Navy photographer in Southern California during World War II, but longed to see action and was assigned to an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific. “I didn’t want to say I’d spent the war on land,” said Shumaker, who’s now 91.
Ed Shumaker was trained to serve as a Navy photographer in Southern California during World War II, but longed to see action and was assigned to an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific. “I didn’t want to say I’d spent the war on land,” said Shumaker, who’s now 91.
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