Posted on 11/11/2018 3:52:51 PM PST by Rummyfan
Mine was fighting with Gen. Mac Arthur in the Philippines. 5 Major battles including the retaking of the Rock Corregidor 503rd Airborne. He and a PFC put the US Flag back up on a telegraph pole under sniper fire, that Flag was to go to Mac Arthur, and a second one run up until the official flag raising 2 weeks later.
My BIL was aboard the Second USS Lady Lexington after the first was sank.
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