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   I inserted this OP on another board  and it has been well received and just thought I would try it here.. The 1st Chaper was wrote in February 9th, and this Chapter will be followed by chapter #2 by Tomorrow night... I did write some kind of an introduction to the 1st chapter and it is following... I can assure you that this will be quite different, since you will all be with me during the Year of 1945...

   We will probably have about 10 chapters at different times of te year to cover just a few months…Were going to go back a few years that most of you wasn't around at this time and you will witness some good and bad things with some very interesting things that this Country has gone through and I was included most of the times…
Were going back 65 years to 1945 and we will be seeing and talking about a lot of things that happened during this very interesting year… Most of you will never experience anything like this, even if you tried…Some of it, you would never want to… I guess that is why they call something like this a “once in a lifetime Journeyâ€

Sidartha

Yes, but this time you can go with me and enjoy watching History being made as we move on...

Butterfly

Many thanks and I guess that I read your mind...  You was probably sending me some very strong Wave lengths containing this OP... 

  

Warrier- Maybe this board does'nt get as many posts(yet).... but at least you don't have to sift through bs posts and the posts here are well thought out and respected . This imo is a great board for a thread such as this....very much looking forward.. as Sid and others are to hearing more
Many thanks again 

  

WWII, keep posting. There are always more silently reading than responding. Keep that in mind.

Butterfly

I am not concerned as to how many posters are interested...   Just don't want to put anything out that folks may not really care for.. I don't really have any problems in answering questions, but were not deeply into this as yet... I will definitely continue to see what really starts to take place as we go along on this Historic trip... You will be getting more Valentine evening and then about 5 days later you may get several in a row then there maybe a week between some of them... I am really flying this by the seat of my pants...   Any help is appreciated...
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sooz

So glad to hear about your Dad, and it sure dose sound like he had a great sense of Humor,and it helps when your in the areaswhere he has been... A whole lot of Malaria was happening early in the war including the places your Dad was in... Gaudacanal was an another area that you could come in contact with it, which wasn't far from your dad's theater of Operations... The 1st Marine Division fought there and quite a few of them had Malaria and battled it for quite sometime...
Very few  folks knew that I was on Iwo Jma... For a very long time except for my Mom and Dad , hardly anyone else knewI was there...  We will mostly cover it here and will kind of limit it to the Highlights...

My FIL, Eugene Born, was in Iwo Jima. A very quiet man, and I had only a few months listening to him before he died. All my other relatives weren't exactly on the right side, if you know what I mean. I can say though that none of them ever fought against American troops. They learned a lot of Russian though during the ten plus years they were kept from returning home.

Sid- So was my grampa's brother Fred.  Two brothers went to war together and only one came home

  

All the men on both sides of the family and the women on my father's side were in the forces in Europe- and all came home.

jabra

I do know that you know me very well, which means that the only thing to stop me is the Managers...  At least you and I know that it is coming from me... LOL  remember

My Grandfather and his son, were both involved in the "Miracle of Dunkirk" on separate ships and had no clue at the time the other was there too.

My uncle, (Torpedoman, 1st Class), was also aboard HMS Prince of Wales when the Bismarck sunk HMS Hood on 24th May 1941, (The navy caught up with the Bismarck on 27th May and took it's revenge).

My father served in Palestine on peace keeping duties ........... that situation will sadly outlast the young man in this pic.


Gentlemen, we are humbled in your presence. Thank you all.

Butterfly

If I may ask, where did you lose the other one at?