Posted by mrslesq on February 22, 2021 at 07:26:20 from (72.169.96.10):
In Reply to: WWII oral history posted by Ultradog MN on February 22, 2021 at 03:07:12:
My Dad was in the army in the Pacific theater. He was trained as a medic because he was a big guy and could carry the wounded. He also set booby traps around the camp at night to prevent infiltrators and then get up in the morning to defuse them for the day. Until our guys started to get entangled by them when wandering off drunk so his Captain told him to stop. Then our guys started to get killed again around the edges of the camp. So the Captain told him to start setting booby traps again and Dad told him to get someone else to do it. I believe this story because my Dad was 6'4" and when he told you something; you believed it. He was on Leyte and then Okinawa waiting to invade Japan. During some down time he also helped unload bombs with a dragline. One bomb got loose but did not explode!
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