He saw action on Saipan, and Tinian. He wrote home to his 7 year old son, my dad, about the horrors of war in a very graphic manner. I have the letters, they contain shockingly detailed descriptive scenes, an attempt to convey the smells of battle, and battlefield corpses, and stories of men being killed or maimed while trying to take souvenirs from fallen enemies. I can’t understand why he was so forthright with his small child, but he was.
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He saw action on Saipan, and Tinian. He wrote home to his 7 year old son, my dad, about the horrors of war in a very graphic manner. I have the letters, they contain shockingly detailed descriptive scenes, an attempt to convey the smells of battle, and battlefield corpses, and stories of men being killed or maimed while trying to take souvenirs from fallen enemies. I can’t understand why he was so forthright with his small child, but he was.