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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
My history teacher had an professor at college who was in elementary school in Japan during WWII. He told him a story about how as kids they were taught to run under American tanks while gripping a satchel charge.
This story really hit home for him, see his dad was in WWII in the US Army and served in the ETO (With Patton). After VE day they put him on a ship to the Pacific. Now he was really tall (my teacher was like 5'10" and his dad was taller than him he said) so the PTB decided the first people to storm the beaches in Japan would be the tallest troops since as the Japanese of that time were short it would be intimidating they thought. But the invasion never happened.
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in the Pacific and I heard about these stories, from the Pearl to victory in the Pacific,Unfortunately, he succumbed to the WWII,just like many other Americans did,but but the stories have been told has had an impact not only because many lost their lives at stake,but a humane approach to how people live, and hopefully learn life!