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Message:: [QUOTE="Bud1 Wilson, post: 3068858, member: 93766"]Nolan..Not to defend Mitsuo Fuchida , but back in the day...had he not  followed the orders he would have lost his head and they would have went to the next guy.  I also served in the Military and heard many stories from guys with what was called "TO-JOE CROWS", these were guys who were captured by Japan and served out much if not all of the War in a prison. Many of the stories would bring your blood to a high temperature and caused many bad feelings.  I had a neighbor who was in the first invasion force of US Marines on Tarawa and he hated Japan.  Not thinking one day I invited him to view a Yamaha boat engine I had purchased, to the day he died he never walked into the area where I had the boat. My friend died from cancer of the kidney due to being sent to Hiroshima as part of the occupation force after Japan surrendered.  From that day to this I have never knowingly purchased anything made in Japan.  Your Dad had to have been a brave man, because in 1942 the US was in bad shape because it's Military was lacking in almost every necessary item of war...but as the great country it is the people sprang into action and did what had to be done.[/QUOTE]