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If there is any chance, and you feel comfortable doing it, ask him if you can tape or video record a conversation with him as he reminisces about his youth.

We did this with a friend's Grandfather before he passed in the 80's.

I asked him if he had met anyone famous during the War.

Turns out he was in uniform (Ensign) passing through Washington, and running into Admiral Ernest King (CNO) late one evening at a train station was invited by the Admiral to have a drink. They met up with J. Edgar Hoover, but the Grandfather was loyal to his word forty years later not to reveal the conversation!