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To: Axenolith

Your post #1458...regarding timeline...success.

Quest Channel was running some historic documentaries of WW II battles in the Pacific Theater. In the 80s I had this insatiable bug about reading everything regarding that war. EVERYTHING. But time takes its toll and things get a little forgotten. One of those somewhat forgotten things was the fight for Peleliu in the Marianas Islands.

Watching video and hearing vignettes of the participants brought back great memories of me on the couch in front of a fire in 1982 absorbing as much text as I could in the limited down hours I had. Also today watching that, I was struck with the parallels of that 1944 battle between the US military vs the Japanese Empire, and the current White Hats vs the DS we are now focused on.

With the best intelligence available and considering what forces the US could bring to bear on Peleliu, what was flagged as a three-day fight extended to over 70 days. The Japanese were dug in tighter than wood ticks with supplies far exceeding what our estimates foretold. And the will of the Japanese to hang on to what they believed in...to fight to the last man made taking ground for the US literally a yard by yard operation. 11,000 US casualties. Easy it was not. Damned brutal and horrifically ugly it was.

I can’t imagine the feed back Peleliu planners had to give to Admiral Chester Nimitz about the real time schedule. It’s that contact with the enemy thing. Stuff turns to crap.

So Q’s July “date” of things finally getting the Peleliu flame throwers...well, we have a couple of days yet. After being reminded of the Peleliu battle today, the DS actors are as dug-in and as fanatic as any of the Japanese were on that island. And the deepest DS deepies are not going to be taken alive. Q will have to throw a 10 pound satchel charge of dynamite into every rabbit hole encountered ala September 1944.

Personally, as impatient as I am, I believe the progress we hope for is actually taking place rather quickly all things considered.


1,590 posted on 07/28/2018 7:57:10 PM PDT by EMI_Guy ("You have to slow down to go fast." - Kenny Roberts)
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To: Duchess47

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1,592 posted on 07/28/2018 8:00:42 PM PDT by Duchess47 ("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
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To: EMI_Guy

Nice post re: timelines and battlefield clocks. ThankQ


1,613 posted on 07/28/2018 8:47:26 PM PDT by blu (WWG1WGA)
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To: EMI_Guy
Excellent point.

Of course, all Japan's intransigence did is get them ...nuked.

That, and MacArthur's "island-hopping" campaign where he left them to wither on the vine without supplies.

I'm wondering how Trump and the White Hats could handle that.

But this brings up larger issues, which are crying out for a vanity...but I don't have time at the moment.

...the Deep State has put their remaining two brain cells together, and concluded that they can defeat President Trump and Q, if *every* *last* *fornicating* *one* *of* *them* plants all four hooves like a donkey, breaks the law to resist as much as possible, and foot drags, lies, sues, and doesn't cooperate (down to District Judges giving prima facie un-Constitutional rulings within their district, which they claim to hold nationwide, and to the GOP-e in the House and Senate undermining both the President's military policy, his domestic initiatives, and tariffs and agreements, from within. You know, black-and-white opposite of what they did for the Muslim Usurper (whom I think several of them secretly fellated).

1,651 posted on 07/28/2018 9:47:10 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: EMI_Guy
One of those somewhat forgotten things was the fight for Peleliu

Peleliu was the battle where the Japs forsook the banzai charge of earlier battles and substituted a strategy of bleeding the enemy from fortified positions. This was the same as Iwo Jima (although there was a very late banzai charge in that battle) and Okinawa where the Japs had to be blasted and burnt out from every position resulting in higher casualties for the good guys.

Hopefully the DS will banzai soon.

1,894 posted on 07/29/2018 12:39:25 PM PDT by xone
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