Mike and Paul, two of eight Lutzetsky brothers who served our country in war time.

Mike Luzetsky and his wife, Jean, served in World War II, Mike in the army and Jean in the WACS. Brother, Nick, explained that while in the army Mike guarded German prisoners of war who were detained in a stockade in Germany: “Actually, none of us brothers like to talk about the war, but one time, while we were hunting, Mike told me that once, when he looked in at the prisoners, he recognized a guy he had known from Chesapeake City. I guess he had gone A.W.O.L and was thrown into the stockade with the Germans. The guy was from our same small town—amazing!”

Mike’s brother, Paul, joined the navy and did his basic training at Bainbridge before he served in the Pacific on a destroyer escort, the U.S.S. Decker. Brother Nick pointed out: “Paul wrote me letters when I was in the navy and told me: ‘Yeah, as gunners we shot down Japanese airplanes.’ That’s all he ever told me, but, you know, he must have seen plenty of action in the Pacific.”