I would love to hear what he had to say about New Guinea. My father served there for three years. Cannibals, Headhunters, 20 foot long snakes, jungle diseases, rain every other day with 100+ degree temperatures turning the ground into hot mud.
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Your Dad and the others went through as bad a hell that there was in WW II. The Japs stacked up rotting bodies and used them for barricades. Our troops had to deal with that kind of situation. It was as horrible as it gets.
Dad brought hundreds of pictures back which we kids were too stupid to save. One showed pits filled to the top with human bones.
The stench in the pacific battles was overwhelming no wonder many of the men started smoking just to survive it.
The Australians paid a package of cigarettes for each Japanese head the islanders would bring them.