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To: Eric in the Ozarks

God bless your dad....those injuries must have been awful.

The Japan invasion would definitely have happened. My dad was in the Battle of the Bulge, and after a rest, he would have gone, as well. Neither of us would probably be here if they hadn’t bombed Hiroshima & Nagasaki.


6 posted on 05/26/2012 8:21:20 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: CatherineofAragon
"My dad was in the Battle of the Bulge, and after a rest, he would have gone, as well. "

Yep that's the way it was. I had been part of that too. We were in occupation in Austria awaiting orders. No one had been released from the Army. But now the war was over we could go home. It was August I was 19. I couldn't vote. Nine months to go for my turn to go home. Then Life begins. Thank you Pres Truman.

12 posted on 05/26/2012 9:07:17 AM PDT by ex-snook ("above all things, truth beareth away the victory")
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To: CatherineofAragon

I was about 10th in a long line of replacement infantry troops on Leyte the day a young Lt.(I was a couple of months away from being 19) came out of the equipment supply quanset hut and told us to go back to our tents as the shooting was over. As I recall the scuttlebutt was that our tent was being outfitted to go to Mindoro Island. Years later I was informed for certain that Mindoro was a staging place for the 96th Div. in preparation for the invasion of Japan. The 96th Div. had returned to the Philippines after combat on Okinawa. My only sibling brother had been killed on Okinawa serving with the 96th Div. The 96th Div. was cancelled from occupying duty in Japan and instead was chosen for service release. I spent several months on Leyte in an ordinance company. Ond from our camp on a knoll inthe middle of a rice paddy we could see several hundred yards across the paddy at least one Jap straggler in the mountains. Four of us got permission to go and get the Jap to give up. We never found the Jap but I did come back to camp with a big bunch of monkey bananas. There is much more to this story as well as at a later time when assigned to the Army Air Force in the Marianas to get my service time in. It was interesting and memorable to see the human remnants of the war there especially the burned out caves apparently by flame throwers.


25 posted on 05/26/2012 12:42:49 PM PDT by noinfringers2
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