On Jun 19, 8:42*pm, Lewis Hartswick wrote:
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* One of my cousins toted one of them in south pacific.
He still has a severe case of "anti anything JAP".
I'm almost afraid to park my Subaru in front of his
house when I visit. :-)
* * ...lew...

My father did, too, until I reminded him of how thoroughly we hit them
back, details that came out after the war when they only wanted to
forget.

Then he remembered picking up the crew of a lone B-29 at their
dispersal area and driving them back to debriefing. They weren't
wounded and the plane was undamaged, but he had never seen such silent
shell-shock on an air crew. He guessed that they had returned from one
of the A-bomb missions.

jsw