Re: Valentines Day 1942 - Dutch East Indies

Posted by Billy NY on February 14, 2020 at 08:47:09 from (74.70.87.149):

In Reply to: Re: Valentines Day 1942 - Dutch East Indies posted by Goose on February 14, 2020 at 07:34:27:

My great uncle was a US Army soldier, 105th Infantry, he made it all the way through the pacific theatre. I do know that he saw some of the worst of it, fought hand to hand in battle, per some of the things he told my father who was also Army, 7th SF ABN. I am sure it was very limited in content and to whom he did actually speak of these things to. I believe it was only to other veterans, if that, including my grandfather who was also a WWII veteran. They were the only people that knew any details of this, which oddly enough included his oldest sister who raised him and his brothers, my grandmother. Their mother died very young, she had to raise all her brothers. She shared many things with me about those times, mostly very good things, but also about uncle Ralph and the war. They were tough people and tight knit in good and bad. My grandfather, her husband, survived a torpedo hit on a ship in the Atlantic, literally blown out of it, burned pretty bad & floating until rescue. When Ralph first returned, my grandfather, along with my dad, went to pick him up, think it was at Ft Lee NJ. It was bitter cold, snowing etc. He brought as much as he could carry to give to the other soldiers huddled in these tents, including liquor. Ralph came to live with them in Brooklyn. They were all from here, Troy, NY, well except my grandfather. My grandmother was a real go getter, she had left when the brothers were old enough and opened a beauty salon in Manhattan and had some notable clients, movie star types eventually. Ralph finally made it back here after filtering out the horrors of war as best he could while living with them. I heard some detail of that too, was a difficult time for him.

Once he came home he was very successful, had a wonderful family with 8 kids, a highly dedicated family man and to his community. He worked until he was 86 years old, and has patents for some of his work with Behr-Manning.
It was inferred, based on things I heard from them, the Japanese soldier was something not even the worst words could describe, and I have heard it more than once, the intense hatred of the Japanese soldier by those who fought them, given the atrocities they committed during this war.

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