Had two uncles who fought in that war. And a few distant relations.
Both fought in the Pacific theater, one in the navy who was aboard the USS Missouri during the surrender and the other in various islands fighting.
The one in the navy would talk about it, the one in the Marines wouldnt.
Dad talked to me in great depth and detail - once and only once - about the terrible things he and the 33 men in his platoon squads had to do to, and went thru in those 3yrs he was in the War in Europe. “War is necessarily that way”, he said.
If you’ve ever seen “Band of Brothers”, you know what I mean.