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Glassunion

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9. My wife's grandfather never talked to the family about the war.

Reply to MousePlayingDaffodil (Reply #4)

Thu Jun 23, 2016, 01:00 PM

Jun 2016

All he really talked about to them was that he served in the Pacific (Navy), and piloted a Higgins Boat putting Marines on shore.

Several years back, I mentioned to him during a visit, that my wife and I had visited the WWII museum in NOLA, and saw a restored Higgins Boat. We chatted for quite a while about it. He sort of opened up a bit, and told me about how terrible it was. He could not imagine the hell the Marines went through on those islands. For almost every trip he made ferrying Marines and supplies to the shore, he had to return with casualties as well. I wont go into detail.

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