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my dad was a USN Pharmacists Mate 1st class and served in the Pacific on a Landing Ship Tank (LST) aka Large Slow Target.
altho his convoy saw only limited direct combat, it was strafed by an enemy seaplane near Truk. he attended to some serious medical emergencies which included a sailor involved in a boiler explosion on a light cruiser and a Marine who was bayonetted in the stomach by his buddy while playing with a souvenir Japanese rifle.
he said he was seasick for 3 years and never acclimated to being at sea. I have a photo of his ship being launched in a blizzard at the Dravo Shipyard in Pittsburgh PA and another of it going thru the Panama Canal.
I was in my teens before he ever divulged any details of his time in the military. wish I would have gotten more details about his life aboard ship but he always seemed reluctant to discuss those times.
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