re: #622 Nadnerb

Thanks, Gus. I’ll check this out. I have a small understanding of the war through the eyes of the Navy. My grandfather was an SBD Dauntless pilot in the So. Pacific. He had his tonsils removed in New Zealand, and that’s about all I know of his time served. I would have been scared shitless to have been one of these guys. On a landing craft, in the air, knowing the toll ahead.

All of you who have served or are serving, thank you.

That took guts. I mean going out into the middle of the Pacific and sometimes only using dead reckoning for navigation. Ditching in the sea with no radio contact was not a good outlook for ones future. My contact with WWII vets is minimal. I knew three and they all passed away. No family. An architect I worked for died last month was an Ensign and part of the prepared invasion fleet of Japan in 1945. Another flew B-29s in China and the other B-24s out of Italy into German targets.