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...with casualties in the first wave estimated to be 100%

My father, a Marine Corps veteran of Okinawa, was scheduled to be in that first wave. He never had a bad word to say about Harry Truman.

22 posted on 12/28/2018 11:21:49 AM PST by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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As was two of my uncles. Both said there was a hell of a party after they dropped those bombs and the war ended. They had been issued envelopes to put their personal belongings in before the invasion. Iwo and Okinawa confirmed what it was going to be like going into the mainland Japanese Island.


30 posted on 12/28/2018 11:37:58 AM PST by crz
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