Reply #108: Father in WW2, stationed in South Pacific

[Piperay]

fought in New Guina and the Philipines, later was with the occupation forces under Gen MacArthur in Japan. My father hated being in the military, remembers it with anything but fond memories and refuses to talk much about it. Once when I was a kid I asked if he killed anyone when he was in the Army (which was stupid thing to ask but I was just a kid and didn't know better) and my mother got real upset and said to never ask him something like that again.