Posted on 05/09/2021 10:27:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
“I heard him speak about his experience. Amazing person, amazing story. None of them would have been rescued except that someone on a plane flying overheard happened to catch a glimpse of something in the water”
I believe that big beautiful Recon Plane “Catalinas” rescued a lot of these men before waterborne assets arrived.
29th, 1945. Anyway, we delivered the bomb.” — Quint
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Coincidentally, the very day I was born.
The Facebook group said in a post that it was “shocked and saddened” by the news.
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Saddened? Yes. But shocked? He was 96.
God bless him and welcome him home.
RIP Marine.
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