VJ Day

Interviewer: So VJ Day, you, you said a bit about how the local commanders, the Japanese commanders didn't consider it necessarily over but what did VJ Day, how did that go over for you guys?

It, it, it really didn't, it didn't make, it didn't seem to, we didn't celebrate or, or the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that registered, but VE, it was just another day, it, it, it didn't make any difference to us because it didn't affect us. There was, there was no, there was, there was no reason for us to celebrate it because we were, we were still bloody well bound to fly, so it didn't make any difference to us.

Interviewer: So how did, you mentioned the atom bombs. How did they register? What did you guys think?

That it's unfortunate that these people are killed and so on, but the bloody war's gonna be over and we can go home, but, but we did, we did have some, some concern about the number of people that lost their lives and, and not only that but the disfiguring of people, that they show, that was of concern. Even, even at that young age that we were, that, that was a concern that they had to go through their life disfigured they way they are. But then when we looked at how many American soldiers would have lost their lives attacking the mainland of Japan, you know, so, being selfish again, we were, we were happy that this would bring closure and we can go home.