My mgf served in the Russo =-Japanese war after which he emigrated to America so his children wouldn't have to. In an "Appointment in Samarra" type of thing one of his sons joined the Seabees during WWII and was stationed around the Sakalin Islands. He came home with some PTSD Esther Levine Brill searching Jablonski, Szczuszyn, Grajewo; Icko Lewin married to Slate Goldberg in Bialystock