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U.S. Navy aircraft: PBY-5A Catalina flying boats and Lockheed PV-1 Ventura bombers at Aleutian Islands Airfield, Alaska. September 1943

Wilhelm Hempfing (German, 1886 - 1948)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Hempfing

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A Hellcat on CVL-29 USS Bataan with Honor Guard with a burial at sea with an earlier photo of the carrier's front view in the SF bay 1944. It was was an 11,000 ton Independence-class light aircraft carrier. It's a... very moving photo. My grandpa was a IJN fighter pilot.

He told me in his twilight years "You do know the men i fought, also are the reason you enjoy the life you do in the US, right? Things would have turned out very different. Please don't be disrespectful." What really shuts people up and me was: "You didn't see what I did and praise the Good Lord you never had to! Carry a vets groceries, pay it forward, offer help anyway and whenever you can. It upsets me because we simultaneously killed each other and they still rescued me in the Philippine sea. You wouldn't be here today if it weren't for them."