These men are the real hero's.
IMO, of course.
Pentagon Enlisting Outsiders to Help Search for US WWII MIAs
IMO, of course.
Pentagon Enlisting Outsiders to Help Search for US WWII MIAs
Never forget them!
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My dad flew in and out of Papua New Guinea several times, 1942-1945. Also... Burma, Philippines, New Zealand and a host of small Pacific islands whose names I can't recall. The Japanese were fanatical warriors.
A true American hero! I salute your dad!
The WW2 veterans will soon be gone. We must always remember The Greatest Generation.
Papua New Guinea was not a good location for Allied servicemembers to wander about as tourists. Remote, geographically isolated. Their culture was a world unto itself; tribesmen lived as their ancestors had for thousands of years, practically untouched by Western civilization. My younger brother has an old photograph showing my dad surrounded by Guinea natives, all smiling, with my dad holding what appears to be a 3 year-old child in his arms as everyone poses for the camera. My father being about 22 or 23 years old, and from rural Kentucky, knew nothing of this exotic culture and had no reason to fear any harm from them. It was a very different world.
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