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.
We own our lives to the men who endured this for our freedom. They cannot be praised too highly.
He has said of one deployment, “It was so hot and humid, the crew rotted.
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.
My Dad also served in New Guinea, with the 32nd Infantry Division. He said the environment was harder on him than the Japanese, who were mostly back in the jungle and starving.