My Father was at the Battle of Midway, but like your grandfather, he didn’t like talking about it. He passed 25 years ago.
I watched a show about the battle of Tarawa earlier tonight. Lots of new island assault methods came out of that one.
The American Heroes Channel has some great shows.
First thing this morning I watched a show about the Malmedy massacre and the German officer who managed to slip by without being convicted. He was killed in France in the 70s when his home was firebombed.
If US carriers had been at Pearl Harbor there may have been no Midway. It could have taken us much longer to have that fight. I know things were primitive in 1941, but I just don’t understand why Japanese spies on Ohau (there were many) couldn’t find a way to tell their fleet that the carriers weren’t in Port.