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Grandfather was a Marine fighting on Iwo Jima. He was half Chinese, Half Portuguese so he was very familiar with the Japs and their culture. They were very low on supplies and starving. My Grandfathers men went into an abandoned bunker and came out with cans of some kind. My grandfather recognized them as canned clams he ate back home in Hawaii. His platoon did not want to eat it and thought they were poison but he convinced them and probably saved their life. He also talked about burning out Jap bunkers and shooting them when they came running out while on fire.
