Thanks I’ve read several. One was a Dawn Like Thunder. The whole event was so wide ranging. I’ve read Neptune’s Inferno , Last Stand of The Tin Can Sailors, With The Old Breed, and on and on. What I’ve came away with is a lot of respect for our countrymen who served all these years. I paid no attention when I was in. Now I look at where we came from and it’s amazing. The USA has been here just a little over 200 years, but our patriots blood has spilled over a lot of this planet. Freedom Ain’t Free is a fact.
thank God many are resting safely in heaven and not witnessing what's going on now....
Ordinary men did extraordinary things in WW2. My grandfather was a farm boy from Maine. Joined the Navy in ‘42 because my great grandfather was a Doughboy and didn’t want his son in the trenches. He served on one Tin Can the whole war. Sailed the Pacific from the Aleutians to Australia and most everywhere in between. His big battle was Philippine Sea.
When I was a kid he was always setting off metal detectors at the airport from some shrapnel in his leg from a bad gunnery accident that killed a bunch of his shipmates. RIP.