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The picture below is of Major George Dowell Leask with his son Pfc. George Dowell, Jr. Leask. George Sr. was stationed in Oakland, three days after Pearl Harbor, as an Assistant Signal Officer for the San Francisco Port of Embarkation, and reported later in 1946 at the Pearl Harbor trial proceedings by telegram that "lying on the Oakland Pier for a long time were three 100-foot radar towers. In my opinion if these radio towers had not been delayed on the Oakland docks you could have used them to good advantage December 7, 1941." as quoted by Maj. Gen. Walter C. Short to the Oakland Tribune.<br /><br />George was injured in a bombing in Naples in 1944 and retired at the rank of Major to Waterloo, Iowa in June of 1944 from Oakland.
George's son [[George Dowell Jr. Leask]] was killed in action while serving in a medical unit in the Army. See his own bio for more information, including letters written about Dowell from his commanding officer, his grandmother, and his father that were printed in Letters of Interest.