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Kidd was not the only member of his family to wear a uniform in WWII.In fact, Wesley and Annie Kidd sent five sons overseassimultaneously although they were serving in different locales.Howard Kidd served withArmy Air Corps and ran into Frank about a monthbefore the invasion. Whenthe Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, brotherCharles — the only one who enlisted — was in thePhilippines.Another brother, Mark, was a young Marine with combat duty at Okinawa and Iwo Jima, and was a short distance from thewell-publicized flag-raising at Mount Suribacha. Fredput in 27 years with the Air Force. Mark suffered theonly casualty, a shrapnel wound of the leg. Charles and Fred are deceased.After the war, a sixthbrother, Narry Wesley Kidd, enlisted in the Navy.
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