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In reply to the discussion: What the Oliver Stone docu says about the nuclear bombing of Japan is... [View all]zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)I know, I'm not all that far removed either. Both my parents were in their 20's during the war. My father was one of those state side the whole time. But they were signed up for "the duration +6 months" (ended up being 9 months, but that's a long story. Needless to say, state siders got out last.). Mind you, during The Bulge the army was looking for just about anyone, anywhere. They came looking for him, but he was "protected". Both of them worked for the Manhattan project, my father did so in a uniform. No way the army was letting him in theater.
I checked with mom, the WAVES and WACS were proud women. My mother (90) considered being one (The Project gave her better opportunities). But no one confused them with the men. (Which in hindsight is really sad, the WACS often were excellent pilots and women statistically can endure cold, sleep deprevation, nutritional deprevation, and high g environments better than men. All things experienced on long duration flights, and fighter combat.).
As I say, you seem to have an agenda that goes way beyond semantics, I just can't quite figure out what it is.