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Originally Posted by sergei
And I'll never forget an interview I saw of a US sailor who had lived through several weeks of these attacks.
In the middle of one of these kamikaze attacks, one of his shipmates just stood up, said "Boy, it's hot today", and walked off the side of the ship. They never saw him again.
Just couldn't take any more I guess.
Seeing that interview really sent shivers down my spine.
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So many of the stories you hear from vets of the Pacific theater are just downright scary. It's amazing, the things they pulled through.
Where we live we have quite a few former aviators and marines
(NAS Corpus Christi was at one point the largest training facility in the world for naval aviatiors during WWII), not to mention the relatives on my dad's side who served. (Once great-uncle was part of the first waves of Marines on Iwo Jimo) And my mom's side of the family is mainly from the Philippines, so I've always been interested in that area of the war.