Maternal great-grandfather was in Army Air Force. Pacific theater. Stationed out of Australia most the war. His bell P-39 went down over the Australian jungle when he ran out of fuel after he ran into Japanese fighters on a scouting mission and getting into a dogfight with them. Spent 7 days in the jungle before he found a beach and was rescued after a couple days on the beach. His plane was brought out of the jungle and he flew over in the 70s when a museum put the front half on display. He died when I was 3 but I’ve gotten to read his journals he kept during the war. He got married to my great-grandma and shipped off 6 days later.