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05-28-2018, 09:45 AM
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Originally Posted by 2BNTV
Remembering my uncle Joe this Memorial Day. He fought in a lot of battles in the pacific during WWII. He hardly ever talked about WWII but as he got older, he shared the story of how he was asked to man another commissary on his ship because it was bigger. The person that was sent in his place unfortunately died as a bomb hit the ship.
Stationed off the coast of Japan when it surrendered. Even when he was in his nineties, he could rattle off off the battles he fought in.
USS Essex (CV-9 - Wikipedia) |
From 1971/1972 I was stationed on a base in Okinawa off the coast of Japan.
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