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How a single flame-throwing 'killing machine' saved his entire company at Iwo Jima - as told to JAMES PATTERSON by his grandson
UK Daily Mail ^
| 10/13/2024
| James Patterson
Posted on 10/13/2024 7:39:26 AM PDT by DFG
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In August 1944 the island had been shelled and bombed so much that the Japanese commander stated that Iwo Jima could have been taken by a platoon of US Marines in one day. For the next six months Japan reinforced the island. They dug 17 miles of tunnels that weren’t there in August.
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10/13/2024 3:50:29 PM PDT
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Hillarys Gate Cult
(“History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes” - Possibly Mark Twain.)
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10/14/2024 7:15:43 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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