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Originally Posted by aap1966
Your father, and his mates, have my eternal respect and thanks. Ditto for Soterik and Fritter
My kids know who to thank too, and so will their kids.
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hey thanks man! i mean it. gave me chills thinking about it. my dad came home with the jap flag(rising sun) , a broken nambu pistol, a broken samurai sword and a ton of jap funny money. dont know where the flag,the sword,the nambu ever went. i was very young when he showed me them. somewhere over the last years i did run across some of the jap money somewhere.
HE HATED THE JAPS! he was a sarge and didnt take ANY CRAP from ANYONE. if you lied or stole from him YOU WERE TOAST! loved kids, loved animals. only took me bird hunting and small game hunting. always asked him to go deer and elk hunting and he said no, he would rather see them alive. he told me one day i would figure it out. told me enough stories to satisfy my curiosity. when asked later he too was real quiet about what he experienced. his army/aviation battalion photo book summed it all up as i was older looking thru it. horrible wet rainy muddy conditions. his blown up tent labled "500# bomb", the foxhole he dove in that day, with about 3 feet of water in it as well as mud. the blown up showers, the flag draped bodies being prepared for burial and on and on and on.
lots of bomber art on you name the plane, fighters also. the one that always sticks out when the going gets tough and the tough get going in my life,when it absolutely positively has to be accomplished no matter what, failure is NOT AN OPTION was..................."HANG THE EXPENSE" and some scantily clad lifesize maiden painted right below the pilots/co-pilots windows.
he told me stories of how some of the natives were still cannibals. of course this instantly conjured up visions of natives with bones thru their noses and on their skulls, which for a kid really had me going.
and thats why i searched high and low for the best possible condition WINCHESTER M-1 CARBINE and thats what he carried along with a .45.
gawd he could shoot birds on the fly. one hell of a shot. i guess shooting for 5 years of yer life straight, ya just dont forget.
i just read this is only a 10 part series. i am already bumming. maybe spielberg and hanks will do a full length movie on the pacific war.