My dad was a Pharmacists mate on board ship in the Pacific during the battle of MIDWAY.......he never spoke of it.......just acknowledged he was there, did his best...then shook his head.
He’s just started talking a little about it, over the past 4-5yrs; before that, he wouldn’t talk about it, and neither would Mom, who was a WAC RN Lt at the VA.
One of my uncles was a flagman on the USS Missouri in WWII.