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To: Homer_J_Simpson

A couple of days ago, my 92 year old Father-in-law (PaPaw) related a war story to my wife for the first time:

70 years ago, March 30th, 1945, PaPaw was on a Mine-Sweeper off of Okinawa with a convoy of other ships when they came under attack by Kamikazes. One Kamikaze flew by their ship within 100 feet of him, but it was headed for a Destroyer. PaPaw said he could make out the goggles of the pilot.

With his freshly cleaned 50 Cal, he was so tempted to open fire, but they were under a no-shoot order because of the close proximity of other ships.

Fortunately, there was a Hellcat in pursuit which got the Kamikaze before it reached the Destroyer.

34 posted on 04/02/2015 12:30:16 PM PDT by MrTed ("...at the name of Jesus, every knee will bow...", when one 1st does it makes an eternal difference!)

To: MrTed; Lurking Libertarian; null and void; niteowl77; Eric in the Ozarks; Fiji Hill; chajin; ...

Lots of good posts with the personal element today. Thanks, all.

39 posted on 04/02/2015 5:44:33 PM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

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