To: InMemoriam
I wonder what Wherley’s job in the navy was. Perhaps 100 combat hours in a machine-gun turret satisfied his yearning for the wild blue yonder. His chances of surviving past teenage would undoubtedly improve if he switched to surface ships.
8 posted on
06/18/2013 12:20:35 PM PDT by
Homer_J_Simpson
("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))
To: Homer_J_Simpson
Three times as many sailors were KIA in the Guadalcanal campaign as soldiers and marines combined.
10 posted on
06/18/2013 1:50:03 PM PDT by
Jacquerie
(To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th.)
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