I had 5 uncles in service during WWII: MY mother's 3 brothers Alonzo, Edgar, and George Chapman. And two brothers in law, Ray Nyhan and Richard Fish. All in the Navy except Uncle Ed, who was Army. (They called him "the traitor".) All returned home safely. The Chapman family lived in Waterloo, Iowa. Same neighborhood as the 5 Sullivan brothers, who were all lost when the cruiser Juneau was sunk by a Japanese submarine.