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[QUOTE=Graeme / New Zealand;1378110]snappydon I stand corrected on the handles you are right. McArthur whether "dugout doug" or " bugout doug", it was for the same reason. He will never be forgiven because of Bataan.
When I'm not working, posting here or working on my old fords, I'm reading on WW2. That's the one Dobie Gillis' dad called 'the big one'. My dad was in the Army air corps in Europe and I've had two father in laws. They both fought in the Pacific and the subject rarely came up in conversation. 'The Greatest Generation'. Hands down in my mind.
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Graeme, you want to go and see Pashendale, both my g/fathers fought there and survived, we spent a week there last year.VERY moving when you learn the number of casualties there.
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[QUOTE=fotfod;1378136]Archie Bunker is who I recall using that expression. I believe he was a veteran of "WWII, the big one"
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I sometimes wonder at the degree to which those whose home is in the South Pacific read and study about WWII...Then I remember that while we here in the States enjoyed full employment for the war effort, after the initial attack on Pearl, the war to us was never again as close as it was for those Down Under for the entire duration of the war.
My father, too old to serve, was employed making bomb casings, working seven days a week for months at a time. He had a single Sunday off, and a pocket full of money to spend on furniture, but no retailers were open on Sunday. He was able to phone a store owner in San Francisco, who met him and opened his store just for him. I was too young to remember that, but my mother never tired of recanting the story! I'm sure there are those in the South Pacific whose WWII memories are considerably more personal than mine.
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Just finished reading "Killing the Rising Sun" by Bill O'Reilly. Talks a great deal about the Pacific War including McArthur and Oppenheimer. I wouldn't call Patton a "nut case". He was military all the way and if left alone he would have marched east, right thru Russia.
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Patton was respected by his men, and feared by Hitler. At the daily German high command meeting, the first question was always, "where is Patton" What more could you ask. He was an excellent leader, whether it was commanding troops, or managing war torn post war Germany. We all have a some quirks, so what, he go the job done.
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Good posts... Thanks..... My Dad served in Morocco, Algiers, Italy and Austria. Didnt talk about it much..... mostly I remember him saying " I hope nobody else ever has to go through that"...... Mark
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Some of my dad's first experience with flathead Fords was training in the Canadian army driving CMP (army trucks, gun towing vehicles etc. In Canada and Britain. Later in Normandy. Somewhere I have a photo of him standing in front of a 1940 Ford woody wagon.
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