United States Marine Major Charles A. Broudy served in WWII as a pilot in the Pacific theater. He was among the first to land in Hiroshima and Nagasaki after the atomic bombs were dropped. He was attending radiological school in San Francisco, California when he met his future wife, Alice Patricia "Pat" Sutton. After a whirlwind courtship, they married in 1949. Major Broudy served in the Korean War and then was stationed at El Toro Marine Base in Irvine, California.