I intend to spend part of the day on Combat Flight Sim 2 shooting down Zekes, Bettys Kates and Vals. My Father was in the Merchant Marine delivering goods to North Africa and Murmansk. After VE day, they moved to the Pacific where his ship was torpedoed 2 or 3 times, but they didn't explode. So much for Japanese Quality.
I also had a couple of uncles and a cousin "somewhere in the Pacific". I expect that a good part of my health problems today stem from growing up during rationing and not having a proper diet. I got to see my father maybe 3 times during the war and my mother and aunt worked in a factory making cannon shells. My cousins and I grew up with minimal supervision, it's a wonder we turned out as good as we did. After it was all over, I don't remember as much as a "So Solly Chally" from those blighters even though the US went out of our way to set them up to destroy our industry and ruin our economy.
