My high school girl friends father was in WW2 in the Pacific and he joined at 15 years old, he told me how his older brothers had all joined and he asked his mother to give him permission and of course she refused so he forged a letter stating that he was sixteen with his parents permission... which was acceptable back then... well his Captain found out when he got to his first duty on a destroyer and they where in port...Hawaii... he said the Captain restricted him to the ship until he was 16 which ended up being almost two years before he stepped on Terra firma again. Charlie was a great guy and would tell stories about the kamikazes pilots and had a number of pieces of shrapnel still in his back and arms.
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