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re: If you had to fight in WW2- Europe or Pacific
Posted on 4/4/20 at 8:17 pm to bott18240
Posted on 4/4/20 at 8:17 pm to bott18240
European Theater, 100%. The Wermacht adhered to the Geneva Convention when it came to the treatment of POWs, administration of medical help, and the fact that the troops themselves were civilized.
I want nothing to do with the Pacific. My grandfather was on Iwo Jima as a Navy Corpsman. Landed on D-Day and spent 21 days on the island with 1st Btn/28th Marines before being pulled back to the beach to help with triage and eventually onto the USS Mercy where he provided care until shipping back to Hawaii. He turned 18 in June of '45, 3 months later.
I remember my grandmother telling me never to touch him if I needed to wake him up; she would only have to say his name and he would pop right up.
The nightmares haunted him. The stories he told me when I was 18-20ish haunt me to think about.
I want nothing to do with the Pacific. My grandfather was on Iwo Jima as a Navy Corpsman. Landed on D-Day and spent 21 days on the island with 1st Btn/28th Marines before being pulled back to the beach to help with triage and eventually onto the USS Mercy where he provided care until shipping back to Hawaii. He turned 18 in June of '45, 3 months later.
I remember my grandmother telling me never to touch him if I needed to wake him up; she would only have to say his name and he would pop right up.
The nightmares haunted him. The stories he told me when I was 18-20ish haunt me to think about.
This post was edited on 4/4/20 at 11:09 pm
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Posted on 4/4/20 at 8:22 pm to MileHigh_Tiger
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European Theater, 100%. The Wermacht adhered to the Geneva Convention when it came to the treatment of POWs, administration of medical help, and the fact that the troops themselves were civilized.
Well.. they did on the Western front to the Americans, British, and French.
Posted on 4/4/20 at 9:15 pm to MileHigh_Tiger
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The Wermacht adhered to the Geneva Convention when it came to the treatment of POWs, administration of medical help, and the fact that the troops themselves were civilized.
You’d think with that time machine they could have easily won the war
Posted on 4/5/20 at 12:24 pm to MileHigh_Tiger
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My grandfather was on Iwo Jima as a Navy Corpsman. Landed on D-Day and spent 21 days on the island with 1st Btn/28th Marines before being pulled back to the beach to help with triage and eventually onto the USS Mercy where he provided care until shipping back to Hawaii.
You or anyone else interested may want to check out this searchable online database of films taken during WWII. The Marine Corps History Division and the University of South Carolina entered into a partnership about six years ago to preserve these films.
The database includes previously hard to access films with more than 1,500 videos in the collection, including 80 from Iwo Jima.
Link to UofSC article
Posted on 4/7/20 at 3:04 pm to MileHigh_Tiger
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My grandfather was on Iwo Jima as a Navy Corpsman.
So was my grandfather. I am sure they chewed some of the same dirt. I never really knew him. I only met him a couple of times. He was at the VA in Montgomery, AL after the war where he met my grandmother who was a nurse at the VA. Although he came home alive and in one piece I was told the war broke him down and their marriage didn't last long enough for them to have 2 kids in the span of about 4 years before they divorced.. He was a huge alcoholic and after he died we were told he had severe PTSD, although back then, that wasn't a thing.
I know my grandmother was kind of coaxed into that relationship by my great uncle (her brother) who was in the Marines, who also served on Iwo, but not with him directly. When they first started dating, they became best buddies obviously and he kind of helped foster it along because my mom said my grandfather was borderline abusive and was told she needed to let that go.
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