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Pacific War Vet - 11/25/2012 10:10:14 PM   
ilovestrategy


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Status: offline 		Met a Pacific War vet while browsing some WW2 magazines. He told me of New Guinea, Pelilue(spelling?) and Okinawa. I think what I love most about actual war vets is the fact that they don't really talk about the fighting but the everyday things. For example he told me that what was worst than the fighting was the stench of the dead and having to carry his BAR up the mountains in New Guinea.

He told me that while he was in Okinawa a member of his squad got shot and they then found out the kid was really a kid. He was 16 years old and was angry because he was being sent home instead of going back to the fighting after being patched up.

The vet told me somethng I never knew. He said a lot of Marines stayed in Australia and became citizens there. It's was funny seeing this man in his late 80s smiling while talking about the girls in Melbourne.

He told me after the war he went to college, and as soon as he got his degree in chemical engineering he got called back for the Korean War and spent the next two years in San Diego as a DI.

He said his worst experience was carrying that BAR up the mountains in New Guinea. He said he hated that worst than charging across the airfield at Pelilue.

He told me he saw a lot of peope get killed but what affected him most was seeing the people that were already killed.

I got quite an education today in the magazine section of a grocery store. Sorry for any misspellings. I'm doing this from my phone.

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RE: Pacific War Vet - 11/25/2012 10:26:47 PM   
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Status: offline 		He and my granfather must have served together in 1st MarDiv. Same battles he fought with while assigned to 1st Marine Tank Battlaion.

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RE: Pacific War Vet - 11/26/2012 12:39:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		When I was young there were so many people still remembering the war, could always have a talk in the train or while waiting for the bus.
Pretty rare these days :(

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RE: Pacific War Vet - 11/26/2012 1:44:12 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Gräfin Zeppelin

When I was young there were so many people still remembering the war, could always have a talk in the train or while waiting for the bus.
Pretty rare these days :(



Yeah, my grandfather used to tell me of his fighting the Germans in Africa and Italy. He once told me that while on patrol in a small town he and his squad came around the corner of a building and ran straight into a squad of Germans. He said both sides did a 180 and ran without firing a shot.

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RE: Pacific War Vet - 11/26/2012 3:25:55 AM   
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The vet told me somethng I never knew. He said a lot of Marines stayed in Australia and became citizens there. It's was funny seeing this man in his late 80s smiling while talking about the girls in Melbourne.

My Philipino wife has a girlfriend who works for BHP Billiton as a senior corporate secretary. Girlfriend says the ladies of AUS like our "Southern United States Accent", actually drives australian ladies crazy w/ lust!!!




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RE: Pacific War Vet - 11/27/2012 12:36:59 AM   
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Status: offline 		Not to rain on your parade, but you need to be careful about being taken in by fake veterans. The first thing that caught my attention was that he said he fought on New Guinea. While New Britain is technically part of the New Guinea territory, I don't know that I've ever met a real Marine Vet of that campaign that referred to it as anything but New Britain, Cape Gloucester or simply Glousester. Any Marine I've ever met that served there mentioned the swamps, rain and water, not the mountains. If he was a First Division Marine (and he would be if he served at Peleilu and Okinawa also) he in all likelyhood didn't serve on New Guinea proper. There were some Marine Corps tank units from the defense battalions that did in support of the Army, but not infantry units (BAR man). For every real veteran I have met, I've met 5 others that were BS'ers and likely never served, and another 2 that did, but have for some reason or another have decided to embelish what they did and where they served. They usually screw up on their facts or use incorrect vernacular that tips you off.

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RE: Pacific War Vet - 11/27/2012 3:00:47 AM   
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ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy
I got quite an education today in the magazine section of a grocery store. Sorry for any misspellings. I'm doing this from my phone.


Don't worry about the misspellings, we Americans fled to this continent not because of religious intolerance, but because we weren't able to learn how to spell things properly.

To cplprice's point, from what I know the real vets are ones who won't/can't talk about it.

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RE: Pacific War Vet - 11/27/2012 3:04:39 AM   
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ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy
It's was funny seeing this man in his late 80s smiling while talking about the girls in Melbourne.





Are those girls still in Melbourne? I really need to know.

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RE: Pacific War Vet - 11/27/2012 3:09:46 AM   
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ORIGINAL: bigred
My Philipino wife has a girlfriend who works for BHP Billiton as a senior corporate secretary. Girlfriend says the ladies of AUS like our "Southern United States Accent", actually drives australian ladies crazy w/ lust!!!





That's what girls with Cockney accents do to me. That girl in Dr. Who? Every time she drops a consonant it just kills me.

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RE: Pacific War Vet - 11/27/2012 9:24:46 PM   
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Status: offline 		As I recall, many of the able bodied Ozzie men of that time marched into the history of WW1, and most of the remaining proudly marched off to WWII. There were, simply put, not many of those brave souls left.

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RE: Pacific War Vet - 11/28/2012 4:11:26 AM   
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Status: offline 		I found out recently a member of my church was in the Pacific, at sea, on Dec 7th, 1941, aboard the SS REPUBLIC. This ship starts in the game as part of the Pensacola convoy. He was headed to the Phillipines as part of a meteorological unit, but they were diverted to Oz when the baloon went up.

Part of his unit was then assigned to ABDA command, and shipped from Perth on the USS LANGLEY, along with a load of P-40s, bound for Java...and a date with destiny when she was sunk with almost all hands. he was fortunate, in that he was with the other half, that was shipped to Ceylon, then India.

He ended up in one of the most remote outposts in the whole war: Manning a weather station along the Mongolian border.

Anyway, he's still kicking, became a Presbyterian minister after the war, since retired of course

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RE: Pacific War Vet - 11/28/2012 9:19:57 AM   
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ORIGINAL: ilovestrategy

Met a Pacific War vet while browsing some WW2 magazines. He told me of New Guinea, Pelilue(spelling?) and Okinawa. I think what I love most about actual war vets is the fact that they don't really talk about the fighting but the everyday things. For example he told me that what was worst than the fighting was the stench of the dead and having to carry his BAR up the mountains in New Guinea.

He told me that while he was in Okinawa a member of his squad got shot and they then found out the kid was really a kid. He was 16 years old and was angry because he was being sent home instead of going back to the fighting after being patched up.

The vet told me somethng I never knew. He said a lot of Marines stayed in Australia and became citizens there. It's was funny seeing this man in his late 80s smiling while talking about the girls in Melbourne.

He told me after the war he went to college, and as soon as he got his degree in chemical engineering he got called back for the Korean War and spent the next two years in San Diego as a DI.

He said his worst experience was carrying that BAR up the mountains in New Guinea. He said he hated that worst than charging across the airfield at Pelilue.

He told me he saw a lot of peope get killed but what affected him most was seeing the people that were already killed.

I got quite an education today in the magazine section of a grocery store. Sorry for any misspellings. I'm doing this from my phone.


Thanks for sharing +1

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