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    He never talked about it until they had a forty year reunion. After that he talked about it, he carried a Winchester Model 12 shotgun in a
    forward observation post. They also directed naval fire. He said you could hear the Japaneseicon under his foxhole. He spent thirty one days there and
    never got hurt but had bad nightmares for many years. He said every morning there were new dead bodies everywhere, the fighting went on
    night and day. He saw the flag going up, everyone saw it. They were then sent to Nagasaki as occupation troops. He said they were allowed to
    pick out two Japanese rifles to send home in a wooden box. i have these two type 99 rifles now and have fired them years ago with Norma cartridges

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