Posted by donjr on December 07, 2011 at 15:53:28 from (72.85.45.10):
In Reply to: 70 years ago today posted by old on December 07, 2011 at 14:02:48:
My dad was on active training duty in the army reserve when the Japanese hit Pearl. He landed on Ascension Is. in the south Atlantic on March 14, 1942, and built an airfield under the lend-lease act with Great Britain. The air corps then flew fighters from Brazil to there, and on to another airbase in the Belgian Congo, which they built in late 1942, and then on to North Africa, where he built airfields as they chased Rommel across the desert. He took a round in North Africa, and was sent home and made a "90 day wonder". He returned to England in May of 1944,landed on Omaha on June 11, and headed a truck company across France and into Belgium. After VE day, they were told to pack up and get ready to go to Saipan for the invasion of Japan. Don't ever believe atomic weapons didn't put an end to WWII. Without that devastating firepower, the Japanese were planning to fight to the last, and take out as many of us as they could. It was estimated the casulties would approach 2,000,000 to end the war. And the Japanese still claim they didn't start anything!
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