I had a world history teacher in high school that told every class about how he had sunk a Jap sub with a shot from his 45 into the sub’s periscope. Every class would wait for his story. Obviously no one believed it but it would crack up the kids and the Marianist brothers and other teachers.
Ah, yes. The old “sinking a sub with a shot into the periscope trick.”
I had a Drivers Ed teacher who’d been at the Metz in World War Two, clearing Germans out of tunnels with a flamethrower. He alluded to it a couple of times. One day he started talking about it, and ended up openly weeping in the classroom.
The class was in the early Seventies. It’d obviously been eating him alive since 1944-45.
God bless and keep you Mr. R, wherever you are.