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To: Colonel_Flagg

Glad your FIL made it. I lost an uncle to a kamikaze attack off Okinawa. He was on a destroyer pulling picket duty.


42 posted on 12/21/2014 6:45:47 PM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

I used to work with 3 government agents who were all in the pacific during WWII. They were all Navy and were on different ships. When they were together they would often talk about the war.

I can recall them talking about the Kamikaze attacks, the Philippines campaign and most of all, the great typhoon which struck the fleet.


43 posted on 12/21/2014 6:59:41 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: laplata

That was such dangerous duty. I had another relative on a second jeep carrier that took a kamikaze hit — might even have been in the same campaign as your uncle.

He said he walked through a doorway and closed the door behind him as the plane hit. Everyone in the section he had just left was killed. Said it gave him nightmares for many years.


51 posted on 12/22/2014 11:03:24 AM PST by Colonel_Flagg ("Compromise" means you've already decided you lost.)
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