My father was sent to the Pacific beginning his second hitch in the CG. Jan 44? He got drunk and his ship left without him the day he was to rejoin it in Boston. He said 'give me a train ticket to Portland or Halifax, I'll catch up with it there'.... they handed him a ticket alright, to Long Beach. He got on a new LST in Anawetok, the first time he was ever shot at- washing machine Charley kinda thing... and then it went to Philippines, Iwo and Okinawa. There are several aeral photos on the net of the 760 at Iwo Jima, where a Japanese mortar hit a truck on the top deck, good thing it wasn't a tank truck huh? So not all the enemy were in concrete bunkers up on the mountain eh? They gave it battle stars for those 2 islands, nothing for the Philippines liberation or other PI island landings- or trips to Hiroshima a week after the war with the light and telephone stuff. Republic of Philippines sent him a metal... in the 1990's... kinda late for most guys. There is still an LST/amphibious group in Mass, they blame age, but the price of gas and? lack of interesting topics? is shrinking the meetings. My father don't want to ride 3 or 4 hours to Cape Cod to listen to sad speaches.. I had 3 relatives at Normandy, my mother's 2 uncles, both translators, and her cousin in the Mount Royal Fusiliers I think, the brothers in the US armored divisions came out without a scratch, this poor Canuck got shot full of holes somewhere inland from Juno beach a few weeks later. His sister, who also joined the Montreal Regiment in '39 or 40 was killed in the blitz a couple years earlier. When I was a kid... holy cow... he would weez, gurgle, his laugh would make you laugh, his father talked good English, said his lungs were all shot up, so he made these noises since then... but he chain smoked... I didn't speak much French, he didn't speak much English, but when they came over, they liked to play with my model trains! When they left, my layout smelled like Beefeater's Gin, Molson sank sank and Export A's! He died around 1970? Barely 50? Really, all 3 battle hardened vets died from either booze or cigarettes...
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