My dad joined the Army Air Corps in 1940. He had won an award in HS for his typing skills so he was placed into administrative work. He spent time in Okinawa but he never talked about what happened there, although he became quite emotional whenever someone mentioned that battle. In the 50s he became an AF recruiter before retiring in the mid 60s. He was so proud of his USAF career and his remains were interred in the Riverside County military graveyard.
My dad was at Iwo and Okinawa. His job was to build airfields. The Marines did the hard work. My dad said the guys who went directly from war to home had the hardest time. They never got to decompress. My dad had a year and a half.
RIP to a fellow airman.