Bringing over from festival:
Fathers father was taken on Corrigedor. He was one of the Naval personnel gathered up to create the 4th Marine regiment, provisional (his S Class submarine never showed up). They fought on the mainland and subsequently held out on the island after the death march for about a month and a half.
After being a slave building airfields for a year he was put on a death ship to Japan and was a slave in a Hitachi copper mine until wars end. He was about 85 pounds when liberated. Ended up being in the Navy for 32 years.
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That is, of course, the real war deal...bloody awful.
We’re paper tigers by comparison. That’s an heroic, patriotic family history you come from Axe. You are doubtless, proud.
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The FReeyores, occasional trolls and “1998-Preservers” I would consider REMFs.
FReeQs I would consider more than papertigers.
Closer to “Radar” of MASH fame.
Only, a bit more stiff-for-battle.
Digital soldiers.
I had a great uncle on that march.He survived it and died when I was a teenager back in the 70s.Hated the Japs till the day he died I do remember that.
I had an uncle who was
on the Death March too.
He lived and fathered 8 kids.
They used to go to the reunion
in New Mexico? I think.