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79 years ago today, the japanese atacted Pearl Harbor causing the US to enter World War II.
;Most of you on this board were not around at the time. Nor was I. I came along 2 years later.
However I have many memories of stories I heard after the war was over as a young boy. The survivors
claimed to be the best generation ever. I tend to agree with them. Not to take away from other more recent vets. I for one am a nam vet. What they went through is hard to believe. Fours years of constant war. No 12 month tours, you were there until you were wounded or killed or till it was over.
I take my hat off to those who served and all other vets. It's a shame so few remember

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My dad was in the Navy when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He was in the Atlantic on convoy escort duty. In June 42 he was sent to the Pacific and stayed there though the end of the war. He didn't like telling stories. It wasn't til after he passed that I learned that he had been on a tanker that was torpedoed and bombed. He then went on a Fletcher class destroyer and was in many battles in 44. He then went on a transport and ran transport boats in at Okinawa. I wish I had sat him down and got him to tell me about these experiences...

My Italian father from Italy (I'm a first generation American) who became a U.S. citizen and loved America, together with his two brothers immediately signed up after Pearl Harbor.

They were born and raised in a suburb of Naples called Nusco. Most Italians who spoke Italian, and especially immigrant citizens who knew the cities were sent to Italy. I think they were under Patton, but I can't say with certainty.

I was not born until the mid fifties, but the story I was told is somehow the military allowed the three to unite and visit their old home town where many people remembered them as young boys moving with their father to USA.

They were now returning conquering heroes. Regular Italians didn't want Fascism or an alliance with Hitler, the corrupt government made the decision to join with the Nazis, and my dad and uncles and countless other American boys chased them out.

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