Sentence:  He had gone into the Japanese navy , had been trained as an officer , had participated in one or two battles - he <WSD>never</WSD> went into detail regarding his military experience - and at the age of twenty-five , quite as a bolt out of the blue , he had walked into the mission as if he belonged here and had become a Christian . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  not ever; at no time in the past or future