John enlisted the Army Air Corps in January of 1943 at the
age of 18.
Soon after basic training, John was shipped overseas to the
Pacific theater of operations. He was assigned to the 3rd Air
Commando unit. His job was supplying the headquarters unit with vital material
in which to conduct the war.
His most memorable experience was when he was on a troop
train in occupied Japan at the end of the war.
John remembers traveling through the massive devastation of Hiroshima
or Nagasaki shortly after the war ended. He cannot exactly remember which city he was
traveling through but the devastation of both cities was horrendous but saved
probably a million Americans and Japanese and kept the war from lasting until
1947 or 1948 as some experts had predicted.
He left the AAF in January 1946.
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