Posted on 08/15/2025 4:06:47 AM PDT by RandFan
They were somewhere around the Panama Canal when the war ended.
My son was stationed in Japan a few years ago while serving in the Navy, he didn’t believe me when I told him about the atrocities committed by the Japanese’s during WWII. My late Father who fought Japan in WWII was an eyewitness to it.
My brother and I had a father who joined the USMC in February 1942 and did not get home to the U.S. until December 1945...
And Godzilla. Can’t forget about Godzilla.
Hell, Godzilla is a byproduct of American ingenuity with nuclear warfare.
It’s good the japs surrendered in 45 because they were rapidly catching up technology wise.
Politics and ego. Just like every other war we have seen, read about, and lived through.
#20 They look to be too rugged plus about 2,000 miles to Tokyo.
https://tinyurl.com/tr7wkmu6
Do you have any idea what Aleutian weather looks like?
Wow, how old are you OldBill?
Wow on your dad. I bet he had seen a lot.
Those A-bombs really calmed them down.
After watching a documentary on Iwo Jima, I asked Chat GPT what the world might have looked like had we had an operational A-bomb sooner and first used it on Iwo Jima.
https://chatgpt.com/share/68a36dad-284c-8000-8145-262252dd805e
My father was in the Pacific for two years of my early childhood. There were no six month R&R’s, no email, no video phones, just letters. Sadly, my mother did not save his letters. My grandfather, on the other hand, saved carbon copies of all of his letters to his five sons who went overseas in World War II. By the grace of God, they all came home to live long lives.
I was a little kid.
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