Wow, my guess is he wasn't really working for Coca-Cola.
My dads grandfather served in the pacific in the US Army. He was the youngest guy in his group when he signed up in 1942 (he will be 84 years old in December). I still haven't gotten the whole story from him on everything he did over there but he specialized in radio and communications and had been in New Guinea, Austrialia, and at the end in '45 he ended up at the University of Manilla in the Phillippines where he ran a Japanese prison camp and was directly attached under Gen MacArthur. He has some pretty entertaining stories including when they were in New Guinea and they couldn't get a drink so he and a group of friends learned to make booze from oldest guy in their group who happened to be 38 and had been a prohibition era bootlegger. They found some old steel wash bins and they turned them into stills to make something to drink.
He only reminisces about the good times, I think there is other stuff he either did or saw that he doesn't like to talk about.
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