Touchet siblings learn about letter their dad wrote during World War II
This is a copy of the letter than ran in the Meridional 78 years ago.
This is the crew aboard the USS Banner, which was a troop and cargo transport boat.
Joseph Touchet (circled in red) was a member of the transport boat. Touchet was also a Higgins Boat pilot and was part of the invasion of Okinawa on April 1 of 1945.
78 years later: Touchet siblings learn about letter their dad wrote during World War II
A Vermilion Parish family was thrilled and saddened to read a letter their father wrote in 1945.
The siblings of the Touchet family from the Prairie Gregg area, located south of Erath, were recently given a copy of a letter that ran in the Abbeville Meridional on Saturday, April 14, 1945.
Their father, Joseph “Villy” Touchet, who was stationed on a Navy ship overseas during World War II, wrote the letter.
