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Posted on 4/4/20 at 11:13 pm to meeple
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Posted on 4/4/20 at 11:15 pm to White Roach
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I remember him and miss him. He hasn't posted in a couple of years and I have to assume he has passed away.
He did. His name was Roy Lowe, and he passed away on March 20, 2018.
Obituary:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.legacy.com/amp/obituaries/shreveporttimes/188443702
Posted on 4/4/20 at 11:17 pm to bott18240
Europe of course, I'd have stolen a shite load of valuables
Posted on 4/4/20 at 11:18 pm to PrimeTime Money
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He did. His name was Roy Lowe
To Roy
This post was edited on 4/4/20 at 11:19 pm
Posted on 4/4/20 at 11:20 pm to PrimeTime Money
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He did. His name was Roy Lowe, and he passed away on March 20, 2018.
Sounds like someone I would have loved to sit and talk with.
Posted on 4/4/20 at 11:21 pm to bott18240
Definitely Europe.
Fighting those brainwashed godless heathen Japanese lunatics that were gladly willing to kill themselves before surrendering would have been scary as hell.
Fighting those brainwashed godless heathen Japanese lunatics that were gladly willing to kill themselves before surrendering would have been scary as hell.
Posted on 4/4/20 at 11:23 pm to bott18240
“I’ll Take Sweden”
I spent a long combat tour in Vietnam in ‘69 as an 0311 Marine grunt and then later spent a week or so on maneuvers on the Bataan Penninsula in the Philippines. Identical mountainous triple canopy and same wretched, sweltering weather and bugs.
Fighting orientals was bad enough (wounded twice) but living day to day in that shithole was almost as bad. I returned to Vietnam in 2004 for two weeks and it was gorgeous once again but still miserable — think a Louisiana morning in mid August ... all year long.
Also came down with weeklong dysentery in 1969, probably from taking those fricking anti-malarial pills everyday.
I spent a long combat tour in Vietnam in ‘69 as an 0311 Marine grunt and then later spent a week or so on maneuvers on the Bataan Penninsula in the Philippines. Identical mountainous triple canopy and same wretched, sweltering weather and bugs.
Fighting orientals was bad enough (wounded twice) but living day to day in that shithole was almost as bad. I returned to Vietnam in 2004 for two weeks and it was gorgeous once again but still miserable — think a Louisiana morning in mid August ... all year long.
Also came down with weeklong dysentery in 1969, probably from taking those fricking anti-malarial pills everyday.
Posted on 4/4/20 at 11:27 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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Sounds like someone I would have loved to sit and talk with.
My paw paw and his BIL were both in WWII. One in Europe, the other in the Pacific.
They owned neighboring small farms later in life. Kind of a family compound I guess. My parents divorced when I was pretty young so I spent a lot of time there as a kid.
They put me to work at 7-8 years old and they both talked a lot about their experiences. It was always fascinating to me.
This post was edited on 4/4/20 at 11:31 pm
Posted on 4/4/20 at 11:27 pm to PrimeTime Money
Thank you for posting Mr Lowe's obituary. He had a long and productive life. He was very understated about his efforts in the war. Only 17 when he enlisted and only 18 at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
This post was edited on 4/4/20 at 11:29 pm
Posted on 4/4/20 at 11:29 pm to bott18240
Everyone is going to say Europe. But if you study casualty totals of infantry divisions that served in Europe and compare them to those that served in the Pacific (both Army & Marine), you’ll find it was was more likely for a infantryman to die in Europe than an infantryman or Marine in the Pacific. You will also find divisions in Europe were actually in active combat for far longer times than their PTO counterparts.
If you take the division that took the highest casualties in the Pacific, the 1st Marine Division, and put them in Europe suffering the same number of casualties, instead of ranking first in the theater, they’d rank ninth.
The bottom line of WWII combat for the average American soldier was far more of a meat grinder of constant death and combat in the ETO than the soldiers and Marines in the Pacific.
ETA: and even more dangerous than being a grunt or leatherneck in either the PTO or ETO, was being an airman in the 8th Air Force. The 8th Air Force suffered a casualty rate higher than any Army or Marine formation in either theater.
If you take the division that took the highest casualties in the Pacific, the 1st Marine Division, and put them in Europe suffering the same number of casualties, instead of ranking first in the theater, they’d rank ninth.
The bottom line of WWII combat for the average American soldier was far more of a meat grinder of constant death and combat in the ETO than the soldiers and Marines in the Pacific.
ETA: and even more dangerous than being a grunt or leatherneck in either the PTO or ETO, was being an airman in the 8th Air Force. The 8th Air Force suffered a casualty rate higher than any Army or Marine formation in either theater.
This post was edited on 4/4/20 at 11:35 pm
Posted on 4/5/20 at 12:17 am to RogerTheShrubber
Last April I was in France and took an extensive tour of the D-Day beaches in Normandy. That was certainly no picnic. My Dad, who would have been 100 in June, was in the Navy and fought in the Phillipines and in the Solomon Islands in the Pacific. We may think we have it rough today but we should count our blessings.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 12:29 am to bott18240
Grandfather in Pacific luckily never got off boat to my understanding. Grandfather in Europe had rougher go.
That said it sounds like if you did fight in Pacific it was brutal. Pacific grandfather felt like the atomic bomb saved his life
That said it sounds like if you did fight in Pacific it was brutal. Pacific grandfather felt like the atomic bomb saved his life
Posted on 4/5/20 at 2:18 am to bott18240
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This post was edited on 4/5/20 at 2:21 am
Posted on 4/5/20 at 2:32 am to bott18240
Europe
D-day was the worst fighting in Europe. It wasn’t a cake walk but after D-day it was easier then having to island hop the pacific.
D-day was the worst fighting in Europe. It wasn’t a cake walk but after D-day it was easier then having to island hop the pacific.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 2:57 am to Ed Osteen
I do. Id choose the Pacific. That way I can get to Hawaii before I get killed.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 4:59 am to bott18240
As long as I’m an American, British, or German soldier the west. If I’m Russian, frick it I’m emigrating to somewhere else.
I want no part of the pacific land war (ie island hopping)
I want no part of the pacific land war (ie island hopping)
This post was edited on 4/5/20 at 5:12 am
Posted on 4/5/20 at 5:30 am to bott18240
My great Uncle lived through the Bataan death March. He was a tough sob.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 5:58 am to bott18240
Europe & it’s not even close. Went to Normandy last year, when you stand at the waterline at Omaha & see the positions the Germans held on the bluffs, it’s crazy that anyone would have survived that.
Great Grandfather fought in Europe, was handed down his 1911 a couple years ago. Hope to hand it down to my future son one day.
Great Grandfather fought in Europe, was handed down his 1911 a couple years ago. Hope to hand it down to my future son one day.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 6:05 am to bott18240
Give me Pacific and a flamethrower... crispy, crunchy Japs
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