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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikey Zee, post: 2434088, member: 72818&quot;]Cool history everyone...and V-K&#039;s link is the first I&#039;ve ever heard of that particular event...</p><p><br /></p><p>My father was in the Pacific and fought in New Guinea, eventually advancing towards the Philippines....He often told us that they asked him if he could swim and after answering in the affirmative assigned him to &#039;amphibious&#039;.... being a poor Brooklyn, NY kid who had to quit school at age nine, after the death of his parents, had to look up the meaning of the word to understand what they assigned him to. LOL. He &#039;piloted&#039; the troops ashore from an LST and then joined an outfit advancing inland.....He always wondered if he was assigned to the Pacific because of his German ancestry, but I think he was just joking about that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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