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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1578873" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>Dad was trained to be a tail gunner in dive bombers. He was about to ship out and got sick. They gave him a drug that nearly killed him. He was medically discharged after 6 months in the hospital. Found out years later that the drug did kill a bunch of the boys. He spent the rest of the war working in the ship yards. Man who was like a second father to me ran landing craft at Tarawa, Iwo, and Okinawa. A guy who worked for my uncle survived the Bataan death march. He had a huge scar from side to side across his stomach. A Jap officer tried to cut him in two with a sword. He was left for dead in a ditch. Some locals found him and nursed him back to life. One neighbor was shot down over Germany in a B-17. Spent 27 months in a POW camp. Dad's hunting partner was in artillery at New Guinea. They rotated him state side he figured that he would train recruits but they sent him to Italy for the rest of the war. Gosh the list goes on and on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1578873, member: 498"] Dad was trained to be a tail gunner in dive bombers. He was about to ship out and got sick. They gave him a drug that nearly killed him. He was medically discharged after 6 months in the hospital. Found out years later that the drug did kill a bunch of the boys. He spent the rest of the war working in the ship yards. Man who was like a second father to me ran landing craft at Tarawa, Iwo, and Okinawa. A guy who worked for my uncle survived the Bataan death march. He had a huge scar from side to side across his stomach. A Jap officer tried to cut him in two with a sword. He was left for dead in a ditch. Some locals found him and nursed him back to life. One neighbor was shot down over Germany in a B-17. Spent 27 months in a POW camp. Dad's hunting partner was in artillery at New Guinea. They rotated him state side he figured that he would train recruits but they sent him to Italy for the rest of the war. Gosh the list goes on and on. [/QUOTE]
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