[Don_Ret_USAF]

My Dad was on a transport headed for the invasion of Japan.
Dad was in the Combat Engineers. He landed in Japan and did work in both sites that were bombed. He never talked about it. Thank God the war ended before the invasion.

[Georgia Girl 2]

My Dad was in Hiroshima 6 weeks after the bomb then went on to be with the occupying forces in Tokyo for 6 mos before being shipped home. He said the farmers were already planting the fields when he landed in Hiroshima.

[GaltAdonis]

"...My Dad was on a transport headed for the invasion of Japan."

.

Mine too.
Maybe they knew each other.

My dad passed in 2015 at age 89.
A few weeks short of 90.

[ZChief]

My dad served in Japan during the occupation and the war crime trials. He didn’t have to invade it. God bless Harry Truman!

Also, part of dad’s duties as an MP was to guard and transport Tojo to his trial. Never asked how close he came to the execution.