Dad told us those war stories over and over again. I guess those were the good stories. Like how he and another guy found a submerged Chris Craft yacht. Floated it and repaired a small hole. They had it for one day before Dug Out Doug(General MacArthur) saw them in it and took it for his own personal boat.
Another story was that he was on the beach on the third day of the invasion of the Philippians when Dug Out Doug walked across the water and said “I have returned”.
He didn't tell us much about how a Jap soldier had knocked out all his upper teeth with the butt of his rifle. Or much about how he got shot in the abdomen and spent six weeks in the hospital. Then all the guys stole his stuff out of his foot locker, including a couple samurai swords, because they thought he was dead.