How soon we forget.
Or perhaps, we were never told.
That is understandable, given what they saw.
But, it happened.
From the book: -'I was talking to a shipmate of mine waiting for the motor launch, and all at once I saw a plane go over our ship.
I did not know what it was, but the fellow with me said, 'That's a Jap plane, Jesus ' It went down and dropped a torpedo.
Then I saw the Utah turn over.
Navy seaman, Pearl Harbor -'Rage is instantaneous.
He's looking at me from a crawling position.
I didn't shoot him; I went and kicked him in the head.
Rage does funny things.
After I kicked him, I shot and killed him.
' Marine veteran, Battle of Guadalcanal -'Marched to Camp I at Cabanatuan, a distance of six miles, which is the main prison camp here in the Philippines.
Food is scarcer now than anytime so far.
Fifty men to a bucket of rice ' U.
Army prisoner of war, Corregidor -'They were firing pretty heavily at us.
it's rather difficult to fly when you have a rosary in each hand.
I took more fellas in with me than I brought home that day, unfortunately.
Navy torpedo bomber pilot, Guadalcanal -'I remember it rained like hell that night, and the water was running down the slope into our foxholes.
I had to use my helmet to keep bailing out, you know.
Gower called us together.
He said, 'I think we're getting hit with a banzai.
We're going to have to pull back.
' Holy Jesus, there was howling and screaming They had naked women, with spears, stark naked ' U.
Army veteran, Saipan -'So I had a hard.
two months, I guess.
I kept mostly to myself.
I wouldn't talk to people.
I tried to figure out what the hell I was going to do when I got home.
How was I going to tell my mother this? You know what I mean?' Marine veteran, Battle of Okinawa, on finding out he would be blind for life -'After 31/2 years of starvation and brutal treatment, that beautiful symbol of freedom once more flies over our head Our camp tailor worked all night and finished our first American fl.
| Book | I was talking to a shipmate of mine waiting for the motor launch and all at once |
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Woodchuck Hollow Studios Incorporated The things our fathers saw: the untold stories of the world war ii generation from hometown, usa-voices of the pacific theater, paperback/mr matthew a. rozell
