He told me many times over that I would not have been born if not for Truman and nuking the Japs..............
He was in prep for the invasion of Japan, I believed him..............
“Concur completely. My dad was in on the invasion of Guadalcanal, Guam, and Okinawa. He as a Navy Corpsman. That should say it all.
He told me many times over that I would not have been born if not for Truman and nuking the Japs..............
He was in prep for the invasion of Japan, I believed him..............”
My Dad was injured on Okinawa, and didn’t talk much about war. It was my mother who explained that he would be headed to Japan, had an invasion been next.
He drove an amphibious tank, enlisted at age 17 and was out before his 20th birthday. A young WWII purple heart vet.
He talked about how proud he was to be a Marine, but not about war.