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re: On this date in 1945....
Posted on 4/2/19 at 9:57 pm to Ace Midnight
Posted on 4/2/19 at 9:57 pm to Ace Midnight
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For you Grant Parish baws, Reed Perilloux, longtime educator and administrator, a tiny man who served as principal of Dry Prong High School (later Grant High School) and later served as the court bailiff in Colfax for many years was in the 1st Marine Division and landed on Okinawa on April 1, 1945.
He was a tiny little fricker. I had no idea he was a Marine vet.
My friends and I referred to him as 'the Armadillo".
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Posted on 4/2/19 at 10:02 pm to DeafJam73
quote:I saw a color documentary years ago about the war in the Pacific. An old Marine was talking about how they would perform “opossum duty” after battles with the Japs. They would go around the battlefield and shoot any Jap soldiers that weren’t dead in the head with their .45’s. They actually had video of a Marine shooting a couple of Japs and it was kind of disturbing. He said they were ordered by their commanders to “Take no prisoners”.
The inhumanity displayed on both sides was truly appalling. War is hell.
Posted on 4/2/19 at 10:09 pm to 777Tiger
quote:Jesus, he survived all three battles? Your uncle had a rabbit’s foot up his arse.
my uncle was there, he hit the trifecta in WWII - Guadalcanal, Iwo, and Okinawa,
Posted on 4/2/19 at 11:04 pm to bhtigerfan
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They actually had video of a Marine shooting a couple of Japs and it was kind of disturbing. He said they were ordered by their commanders to “Take no prisoners”.
The atrocities they saw were unimaginable.
Story:
There was a old man who used to come consult on some old equipment we had from time to time. We'd hire him and he'd show up with his cane. Short fella. Funny as hell. Tattoo on his forearm.
Once day in the shop shooting the shite, laughing... A young engineer comes in. He's American, but is obviously Asian decent (his parents were naturalized).
That old man got cold and sharp. And asked him, "where the frick are you from?".
Kid replied here, but his family was from see Asia. The old fella didn't really simmer down until the kid left.
Amazing such a response from obviously something so impressionable from so long ago.
Posted on 4/2/19 at 11:09 pm to soccerfüt
On the Spam subject - for my dad, who served in combat in the Navy during WWII, it was orange marmalade. They had to eat that every day to avoid scurvy [sometimes, due to food shortages on the ship, it was one of the few foods they had). He wouldn't allow it on the table after the war.
The war did keep him off cigarettes. They had those on the ship even during food shortages (some of those shortages were due to being in typhoons and the supplies couldn't get to them), but they had been fully stocked with cigarettes. So, he smoked to curb hunger. After the war, smoking only reminded him of misery, so he didn't take up the habit.
The war did keep him off cigarettes. They had those on the ship even during food shortages (some of those shortages were due to being in typhoons and the supplies couldn't get to them), but they had been fully stocked with cigarettes. So, he smoked to curb hunger. After the war, smoking only reminded him of misery, so he didn't take up the habit.
Posted on 4/2/19 at 11:58 pm to RollTide1987
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