![]() Three days later, your granddad was dead. So three days before the Japanese took the island, your granddad asked a gunner on an Air Force transport name of Winocki, a man he had never met before in his life, to deliver to his infant son, who he’d never seen in the flesh, his gold watch. None of those boys had any illusions about ever leaving that island alive. Your granddad was facing death, he knew it. ![]() Dane was a Marine and he was killed, along with the other Marines at the battle of Wake Island. Unfortunately, Dane’s luck wasn’t as good as his old man’s. Your great-grandfather gave this watch to your granddad for good luck. When he had done his duty, he went home to your great-grandmother, took the watch off, put it an old coffee can, and in that can it stayed until your granddad Dane Coolidge was called upon by his country to go overseas and fight the Germans once again. It was your great-grandfather’s war watch and he wore it every day he was in that war. ![]() It was bought by private Doughboy Ernie Coolidge on the day he set sail for Paris. Up till then people just carried pocket watches. Made by the first company to ever make wrist watches. ![]() It was bought in a little general store in Knoxville, Tennessee. This watch I got here was first purchased by your great-grandfather during the first World War.
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