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You're right about that. If you are in the enemy's sights, you literally have no where to run, no where to hide. You gotta stand and fight and survive or die.

Dad's introduction to the Japanese was as part of an AA crew at the base of the #3 turret on the Maryland off Okinawa. A kamikaze flew bare feet above his head and impacted on the top of said turret.

He got through WWII, a police action in China, Korea and Vietnam. Never got a Purple Heart.

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I came across said police action in China while researching John Glenn. We lost a lot of Marines for a couple years after WWII ended.