I’ll be watching. Dad entered the army in the fall of 1943. Served in New Guinea and Luzon. 760th FA BN - attached to the 191st HQ. He took part in of the occupation of Japan.
Funny, my son is stationed in Japan now.
My father enlisted in early '42. He trained for what turned out to be the North Africa invasion but got side tracked into an MP unit for almost a year. He wound up going to the SW Pacific as a 32nd Infantry Div. replacement in '43. He also served on New Guinea. He helped take back Leyte Island but went MIA over Christmas '44 and then was hospitalized so he never made it to Luzon. He was in army hospitals until April '46.