Brothers in Arms

Brothers Charles (left) and George Charlton of Beaumont, Texas, enlisted in the Navy together, were shipmates in basic training at Great Lakes Training Station, Ill., schoolmates at service school, and per a 1943 newspaper article, “have been advanced to quartermaster third class.” Charles was born in 1919 in Beaumont and died in San Bernadion, California on the 4th of July in 2003. George, who was born in 1921 in Beaumont, died about 5 months later, in December. He had worked for the postal service for a long time. Sounds like long lives, well lived. And aren’t they rakish in their Donald Duck Flat Sailor hats?

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