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12. I don't know if he was in Halsey's Typhoon or not, he never would get that

Reply to Traildogbob (Reply #11)

Fri Sep 30, 2022, 02:19 PM

Sep 2022

specific with me. The typhoon was one of the few things he did share with me. That, and "Guadalcanal was hotter than hell." I'm sure it was a lot more than that in 1942.

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