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Marine corps
Korean War

from all branches of the service awaiting court-martial.
I went to Nagasaki to see the atomic bomb devastation.
There was very little left there, even six years later.
We headed back home to the U.S. on a transport ship.
There were 45 of us Marine guards, and we had 45

Kincaid Roofing

Proudly Salutes

when they fired that off! I was near the fantail of the our Veterans
ship, and I would watch with my binoculars when
planes would come in for a landing. One guy still
had a bomb under his wing and when he dropped
his hook to hit the wire (to slow them to a stop), the
bomb came off and started rolling across the deck.
Two Navy guys grabbed the bomb and pitched it
over the side. They received a medal for that later.
We had a lot of planes coming in that were shot up.
Another guy hit the wire, and it ripped his tail-hook
right off. His plane slipped over the side. He didn’t
survive.”

Don’s time was cut short on the Bon Homme Richard.
“I was only in Korea for 30 days when I fell and
twisted my left knee, and it began to swell up. I was
sent back to the naval hospital in Yokosuka, Japan to
recover for two weeks. After I got better, I was put on
guard duty at the Naval Base, watching the bad guys

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