Posted on 06/01/2015 5:00:12 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Eager to fight, he had to wait because he had a valuable railroad job that was important to the war effort. A boss finally let him go when he became a union steward.
He saw action in the biggest way possible in February 1945, when the war in Europe was waning but the war in Japan was any anything but certain.
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The Greatest Generation.
My Dad has a Japanese unit flag like that. He was in the Philippines, but got it from a guy who found it in a bunker in Saipan. Not sure what he traded to get it.
Its on the wall of his Seabee lodge now.
Thanks for posting this.
Semper Fi...
Soft chuckle.
When I was a young jarhead I got a lesson in geopolitics from an old man - a street vendor selling flags in Pohang Korea.
I had a buddy back home that I promised a Japanese flag, and this flag vendor was the first opportunity.
When we first met the old man he was quite friendly. However when I asked him if he had any Japanese flags, he immediately went silent. After a few seconds he muttered "'f...' the Japanese, then he walked away from us...
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