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1. My father was a part of the bombing effort to weed out the Japanese from their ‘spider holes’. He was aboard the SS Callaghan stationed in a gun turret and after his relief replacement came he jumped down and his leg collapsed under him. A 50 caliper bullet from a kamikaze bomber’s plane went into his leg ricocheting off bone until it exited the bottom of his foot. He said he didn’t even feel it until he jumped down. He doesn’t remember being shot or how long he was at the gun turret, but was wounded and received a purple heart for his bravery. it was in the mid-Pacific ocean where they ferried him to another ship rigging a cable with a caged stretcher across the waters to the other ship. When I was circumnavigating aboard our sailboat in the mid-80’s we sailed to Palau and hired a boat to take us to Peleliu Island. It was eerie being there walking through the jungle to come across unexploded bombs, to see the cave holes where the Japanese were hiding and gun turrets placed strategically in the jungle. The island was still devastated from all the bombing that happened there. There’s also a few memorials placed there for our soldiers that landed.

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