I’ve been watching The Pacific and wonder at some of the horrors my uncle must have went through on Okinawa. He never talked about any of it.
I worked with 2 POWs from WWII at Wright Patterson in the early 90s. One an American in a bomber shot down over Germany and a German recon Pilot. The German became my all time favorite engineer. We were all Naspeteers in our successful quest on enabling technologies for hypersonic flight.
https://www.thewisdompost.com/essay/essay-on-success/3247
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WXxR7HN4Uvk
E.B. Sledge - With the Old Breed Disk 1
One of the books The Pacific is based on.
Watching The Pacific, it certainly at times made the European Theater look like a relative walk in the park by comparison.
The heat and the mosquitoes and the deadly animals you had to deal with, in addition to the enemy.