After returning from the Alaskan waters he was sent to the South Pacific. He earned 5 battle starts and saw action in many places during that time. He kept a diary of some of the times and expiries he had during his service time.
Byron was release from the navy in March of 1946. He worked in Oakland, California for a month or so and then came home to help his father on the family farm that spring.
The spring and summer was a good time for Byron. It was a wonderful homecoming with his family. Many of his friends were retuning home after being released from the service. Old friendships were renewed with Ralph Beck, Clifford and June Wilcox, Wayne and Earl Beck, Earl and Very Wilcox and many, many more. They worked on their farms, enjoyed attending dances an d had lots of fun together making up for some of the list time during the war years.
That summer he met Marion Howard. They started dating, first just as friends. Byron had planned to work at home in the summer and was going to return to California and a girl friend he had met in the Navy in the fall. Somehow, as the summer progressed, the friendship turned into a romance and they were married in Dillon Montana on October 31st, 1946. Byron was already getting reacquainted with his family that summer and many times he would take his sister, Neta and Lois, with him and Marion to dances at Riverside Garden, near Rigby, Idaho. They would go on picnics with the family and with Lorin and his girlfriend, Velma. Later Lorin married Velma. They enjoyed going fishing and huckleberry picking.
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