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GGJohn

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5. It seems getting drunk that night saved his life the next morning.

Reply to brewens (Reply #4)

Sun Dec 7, 2014, 11:26 AM

Dec 2014

My late father, god rest his soul, was stationed at Hickam Field when the Japanese fighters and bombers struck, he survived to later fly missions over Germany escorting bombers, he rarely talked about his WWII experience.

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