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I Remember Dad:
A Thanksgiving Story
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By Richard Mabey Jr. n early November of 1945, my Dad came home from the war. It was a wonderful, joyous time for my Dad. My Dad served in the Seventh Army Air Corps at Hickam Air Field during the Second World War. Hickam Field is adjacent to Pearl Harbor. One portion of the base’s border actually touches the border line of Pearl Harbor. Dad was sent, with hundreds of other men, to help clean up the terrible damage that had desecrated Pearl Harbor and Hickam Air Field. Even to just days before Dad went Home to be with the Lord, he could hardly even talk about the devastation and destruction that the Japanese attack had left. Dad worked on some of the greatest planes of World War II. Among them were the infamous single seater fighter plane, the P-51 Mustang. And, also the B-25 Mitchell bomber plane. Dad learned to become a good airplane mechanic during his time of service at Hickam Air Field. Japan surrendered in early September of 1945 and in early November 1945, Dad returned home to his Mom and Dad and brothers and sister, in their humble home at the end of Mabey Lane in Old Lincoln Park. This was the very home that my Dad was born in. The very home that my Grandpa Mabey built, when he was a young man. I think that the Thanksgiving of 1945 was very special and very dear to my father’s heart. He spoke of it often, over the years. Things were different then. Old Lincoln Park was a rural farming community, filled with open fields, farms and wooded lands. There were no big supercontinued on page 8
Dad and his Mom, Bertha Mabey, in their backyard at the end of Mabey Lane. This picture was taken in the Spring of 1946.
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