Sadly, my Dad (and fishing partner), Eugene Neubauer, passed away on July 6, 2019. [Obituary].
“Another veteran of World War II has gone to join his departed comrades.”
He will be greatly missed. — Doug Neubauer 7/21/19
“Say not in grief ‘he is no more’
but in thankfulness that he was.”
Looking Back… Okinawa Diary and WWII Memoirs
Eugene Neubauer, Hawaii, 1944
Compiled by Sgt. Eugene C. Neubauer
28th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron
Okinawa Diary
This diary was begun on the day we sighted Okinawa, May 6, 1945. It was closed on the evening of December 24, 1945, the day I arrived home, service discharge in hand, in time to celebrate Christmas Eve…
Okinawa Diary (pdf) – 85 pages
- First entry: 5/6/45 – Today we’re in the waters west of Okinawa in the Ryuku Group. Everybody’s up early. Its still dark and off to the east star shells flare up where the fighting is going on.…
WWII Memoirs
WWII Memoirs (pdf) – 125 pages
- First entry: War was “in the air” when I was still in grade school. In fact, “shooting wars” had broken out in several places throughout the world many years before Pearl Harbor…
The Early Years Memoirs
The years before WWII
The Early Years Memoirs (pdf / zip) – 71 pages
The 28th Photo Reconnaissance Squadron was one of the U.S. Army Air Corps’ units.
Making a hardcover book from a pdf file
OfficeDepot did a good job for us…
officedepot.com/a/products/870509/Hard-Cover-Books/
Hardcover
paper: 80 lb. text gloss
paper size: letter
Full color
Double sided
71 pages – about $45
85 pages – about $50
125 pages – about $60