"'Forgotten' WWII battle in North Pacific still haunts" Topic
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| Tango01 | 16 Oct 2020 3:34 p.m. PST |
…soldiers "William Roy Dover's memory of the World War II battle is as sharp as it was 75 years ago, even though it's been long forgotten by most everyone else. His first sergeant rousted him from his pup tent around 2 a.m. when word came the Japanese were attacking and had maybe even gotten behind the American front line, on a desolate, unforgiving slab of an occupied island in the North Pacific. "He was shouting, 'Get up! Get out!'" Dover said…"
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