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Originally Posted by Jim727
Tonight I'm having dinner with a gentleman who was fighting in the jungles of New Guinea during WWII.
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Jim would you say thank you to him for me.
The Jap's were moving in fast on Australia and New Zealand. And if it wasn't for gentlement like the chap you're having dinner with they would have slaughtered us people.
My grandparents billited (sp) a soldier from North Carolina and they became very good friends. Writing addresses were swapped and both parties were very keen to catch up after the war. He went to New Guinea and they never heard from him again. I believe about 90% of the soliders who went there got killed by the Japons.