He exaggerated his stories and had poor mental health later in life due to malaria so I have to temper my expectations on verifying things. I am also aware of the lost records. But we are reasonably certain as through the VFW that he was a paratrooper in the liberation of the Pangatian POW death camp and are trying to start getting the facts straight.
I typed a thing summarizing my tape record of his war story. It was a project I did in junior high school 25 years ago to record a living history. It's in a comment here
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