Always have enjoyed the personal stories they share after they begin to trust you, the stuff you don't read in a history book. He was in AF from 55-75 and had two brothers who served in WWII and all three of them had a combined 46 years of service. His oldest brother was at Pearl Harbor on a medical ship going there and ran up on a sand bar. He said planes flew over them so low you could see the pilots inside and they never bombed them because they believed they were dead in the water. He said for three days they stayed below deck as Japanese planes flew over them and at night they would all get on deck and rock back and forth by running from one side of the ship to the other side. A man he knew from Kenton TN was on the ship that finally came and pulled them off and back to Pearl.
He was also in a typhoon in Taiwan, during Vietnam, that blew the air conditioner guts out of the window into barracks, he said the metal housing stayed in the window and the window itself never busted. The water was knee deep inside. He said they took beer coasters and were using thumbtacks to hold the coasters over the leaks in the ceiling until they ran out of coasters and thumbtacks.
He was also in a typhoon in Taiwan, during Vietnam, that blew the air conditioner guts out of the window into barracks, he said the metal housing stayed in the window and the window itself never busted. The water was knee deep inside. He said they took beer coasters and were using thumbtacks to hold the coasters over the leaks in the ceiling until they ran out of coasters and thumbtacks.
