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To: sockmonkey

“My Uncle recounted similar incidents where he, and other Americans mowed down surrendering Japanese in the Philippines, although they were supposed to be taken as POW’s.”

Was he a First Cav vet or a ?


58 posted on 07/13/2021 5:58:03 PM PDT by Grampa Dave (If I wanted to live in China, Cuba, Canada or ?????! I would move there! Covid 19 über alles!!!)
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To: Grampa Dave

*** Was he a First Cav vet or a ? ***

Naval Officer, He was a Pearl Harbor survivor, and I think the Philippines thing may have been Leyte, but not sure. I was just a little kid when I would overhear stuff decades after the War.


63 posted on 07/13/2021 7:46:09 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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