Thank you for your service, General!
Having completed my tour of duty as a #Fighter #ace, I was assigned to #Perrin Field #Texas as an instructor #pilot.After this day, as an evadee, I was given my choice of bases. I chose #Wright Field, closest to my home town #WestVirginia & the rest is #History @ParisMatch #Japanhttps://twitter.com/USMC/status/1294361228970790920 …
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Two uncles suffered tremendous mental issues from their experiences of fighting in the Pacific campaign. One died young. The other needed treatment for decades. It was horrific as are all wars. They did what they had to but never recovered.
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My great uncle fought at Tarawa & Iwo Jima and drank quite heavily for a very long time and blamed the Japanese for robbing him of his youth till the day he died!
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#freedom-Fighters - we all owe you …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I grew up in the same county as Perrin, still is our regional airport, Air Force One has even landed there a few times.
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Amazing chuck! Be well.
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Who knows how much longer the war would have dragged on, and how many more people would have died, and with what end result (ie the Japanese Communist Party, backed by Stalin, ruling half of Japan) had it not been for the A-bomb?
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Stalin was the guy who declared war on Japan 2 days after Hiroshima then shouted “I beat them!!” Yes, they would have eventually had to do so and would certainly have replicated the Korean and Vietnamese splits. Probably taking Hokkaido.
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White Betty Bombers in surrender markings arrives in Okinawa with the Japanese delegation before transferred to Manila to meet Gen. MacArthur for final talks of surrender on 19 Aug 45.pic.twitter.com/7AHCgztLdb
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I was at Perrin for a few months
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