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Dear dodyskin: the only time I ever purposely went out into mid-day sun, was on troopship
in WWII, approaching equator. I wanted to get enough of a tan tobe sure that if we were
torpedoed, I would not die of sunburn on a liferaft.
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<<I wanted to get enough of a tan tobe sure that if we were
torpedoed, I would not die of sunburn on a liferaft.>>
Dear Dr. Bill:
Laughed out loud!
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Dear IP: there were sinkings close to us we could hear about on radio.
It was not the least bit amusing.
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Dear Bill:
Nothing amusing about the sinkings. Amusing only that you report going to get a tan so you would not die of one--I misunderstood your intent in reporting it. Apologies.
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Dear IP: feigned indignation only. The only thing the tan would have done would have
been to enable me to live a day or two extra.
Incidentally, after getting a bit of a tan, I fell asleep on hatch cover for almost 30
minutes. When I awoke, I found my shorts had sagged exposing a small bit of dead
white skin. I was burned almost third degree. Extrapolating, without tan, on a liferaft
I could have had fatal burn in only a little more than a half hour.
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Dear Bill:
Damn glad you made it!
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I was a hero, I was. Along with many thousand others. The onl;y time I got shot at was
when I was out looking for souvenirs.
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Well, dadburn it, Bill. Don't leave us hanging with this:
The onl;y time I got shot at was
when I was out looking for souvenirs.
Whatever happened????
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No big deal. On Leyte there were still quite a few Jap holdouts. We were waiting for
ship to take us up to Luzon, and had no regular duty. So we went looking for
souvenirs around perimeter of airport near Tacloban, where there had been a
battle, and small bits of equipment had been left behind. I never knew who shot
at us. But a couple mornings later there was a lttle guy ahead of me in chowline
covered with a black poncho of a type I had never seen before. He had rain hat
with rim down so you couldn't see his face. He took tray and held it out to have
KP slop some slop on it. KP asked him which slop he wanted, and little guy never
said a word. KP, annoyed, reached over and removed the guy's rain hat, and
yelled:"My God, it's a Jap!" He was allowed to eat until MPs arrived.
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Dear Bill,
Thank you for finishing out the tale.
Best regards,
Theresa
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