[VR-21]

I always post something on this date, and on May 6 to commemorate the dates when Bataan and Corregidor fell. I have a personal motive, as a 20 year old sergeant on Corregidor would later become my father. I grew up knowing several men who were PW’s at the hands of the Japanese, and as there is little mention of them nowdays and most of them are no longer with us I do this one thing to pay respect to them.

[Oatka]

I always post something on this date, and on May 6 to commemorate the dates when Bataan and Corregidor fell.

I get a lump in my throat every time I read these:

[PzLdr]

Don’t blame you. One of my uncles [My Mom’s only brother to survive to adulthood] was killed by the Japanese on Guam. He had already been on Guadalcanal, and I believe, either Tarawa or Saipan. A lot of the Pacific War gets ignored.

So does a lot of North Africa [except, maybe, Kasserine], Sicily, and the bulk of the Italian campaign. In the post D-Day campaign, you don’t here a lot about the Bocage, the Huertgen Forest and the campaign in southern France. It should ALL be remembered