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Super post. Thanks.
Midway was our Trafalgar. It should be celebrated as such.
what an awesome post. many thanks.
And messed with their minds as well. The Japs kept referring to "AF" (their code for Midway). We thought it was but weren't sure, so we had Midway send an uncoded message saying they were out of water. Sure enough, the Japs telegraphed that "AF" reported they were out of water.
What blew my mind in reading about the Pacific War was that by FEBRUARY of 1942 we were already launching carrier-based air attacks on some of the Jap-held islands. I thought we didn't start to bounce back until the Coral Sea in May '42.
My dad was assigned to the Aleutians and said it was an ugly mess. The US troops were ill equipped to deal with the cold and suffered terribly. They were issued tropical gear.
Thanks for posting this. Some of the pictures were new to me. Very interesting.
My dad spent 18 months in Italy. He talked about everything Italy except the war. When I'd ask, he tell me “Go talk to Gene (his older brother), he had more time in the Aleutians & Philippines than I had in the service”.
My uncle Gene would absolutely not talk about the Aleutians. He would talk a tad about the Philippines, but only how great the people were.
I found out just recently from my youngest uncle (the youngest brother), my uncle was one of the first to arrive on a graves detail after his friends were killed in friendly fire bombing\straffing in Kisak (Kiska?). I can't image the horror these guys went through.
They were something else.
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Great pictures! One comment - in picture 18, should be “Mogami” class cruiser, not “Mogima”...