Especially at the end of the war when the Japanese had moved to a kamikaze strategy. They had to take out the destroyers to get to the aircraft carriers. And so The US has about 80,000 missing in action sailors and soldiers since the Revolutionary War. Half of those 40,000 of those are Pacific sailors whose ships went down and their bodies were never recovered. right at. The bottom of the ocean. Yeah. Right. And so, so your father survived. He made it through that. He was on one of the. (25:39–25:56)
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Asserts that approximately 40,000 U.S. military personnel missing in action are Pacific sailors from World War II.
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