My dad’s service at Los Alamos & my stepdad’s service as a combat engineer (Seabee) captured & paraded on the Island of Batam, taught me much. Never underestimate an Old Man…. or Woman in the military or elsewhere.
David, I said Seabees because that was what I Always had heard ‘Combat Engineers’ called…. Sorry for the confusion But as for Batan…. My stepdad did make the march. I may have misunderstood AS A CHILD then that people want complete & concise information. Sorry again for not meeting your expectations
@@densondirosa4497 Sorry for flying off the handle. Living in nm and spending time in the VA hospital in Albq 9 weeks in the late 80s and a hundred or so appointments for other things afterward meeting other survivors, while many of the survivors still lived. And knowing all my life a friend of my mothers family who survived Cabanatuan, then, when rescued had to be carried out in "The Raid", ( a good motion picture, though a little hollywooded e.g. the romance) weighing just 65 lbs. And giving the appearance of an " old man " for all of the years I knew him. Possibly your stepfather was there when the island fell as part of the mixed organisations that were made up as the fall happened, as all of the navy personnel were " blue water sailors" pulled into land operations as thier ships were sunk by the Japanese. The combat engineers would have been army. But as I said he may have been " pulled" into an ersatz organisation. Wherein a misunderstanding may be construed. My apologies.
My dad’s service at Los Alamos & my stepdad’s service as a combat engineer (Seabee) captured & paraded on the Island of Batam, taught me much. Never underestimate an Old Man…. or Woman in the military or elsewhere.
The seabees were created after bataaN, liar.
Furthermore bataan is a peninsula on the island of luzon in the Philippines.
David, I said Seabees because that was what I Always had heard ‘Combat Engineers’ called…. Sorry for the confusion
But as for Batan…. My stepdad did make the march. I may have misunderstood AS A CHILD then that people want complete & concise information. Sorry again for not meeting your expectations
@@densondirosa4497 Sorry for flying off the handle. Living in nm and spending time in the VA hospital in Albq 9 weeks in the late 80s and a hundred or so appointments for other things afterward meeting other survivors, while many of the survivors still lived. And knowing all my life a friend of my mothers family who survived Cabanatuan, then, when rescued had to be carried out in "The Raid", ( a good motion picture, though a little hollywooded e.g. the romance) weighing just 65 lbs. And giving the appearance of an " old man " for all of the years I knew him.
Possibly your stepfather was there when the island fell as part of the mixed organisations that were made up as the fall happened, as all of the navy personnel were " blue water sailors" pulled into land operations as thier ships were sunk by the Japanese. The combat engineers would have been army. But as I said he may have been " pulled" into an ersatz organisation. Wherein a misunderstanding may be construed. My apologies.
@@densondirosa4497 sounds like a story told by a CHILD
ANOTHER NARRATOR STORY.......GOOD BY
Well said