oh my, none of them talked about it....my dad would never talk about the war, I found out from my aunt that he was at Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Leyte Gulf, and who knows where else...all I know is he would never curse without “Japanese” as a pre-fix ( Japanese SOB, Japanese bastid, ect.).
My Dad, a WWII Navy Vet, always referred to them as “Those Purple-Pissin’ Jap Bastards!”.