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Bloody but forgotten WWII battle still haunts soldiers
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| 5/28/18
Posted on 05/28/2018 2:39:19 PM PDT by BBell
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To: Bulwyf
Appreciate your comments.
I just remembered one other fact of the rescue of the wife (both were weather observers). I know that the natives took her from her home and canoed away from the Japanese. However, I don’t think they got to American lines.
If I remember correctly, she had radioed her command post/weather base about the Japanese raid and perhaps a rendevous spot has been set up because I recall that one of our PBY’s or smaller seaplanes came in under the fog and got her to safety.
Lots of incredibly brave people on our side with stories yet to be told.
To: BBell
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posted on
05/28/2018 8:07:31 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
To: FreedomPoster
Roosevelt and the upper crust of DC government, knew the date of an attack on Pearl. They were also reading cables. Roosevelt was one helluva manipulator, and the press covered for him just like today.
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posted on
05/28/2018 8:12:17 PM PDT
by
Glad2bnuts
(If Republicans are not prepared to carry on the Revolution of 1776, prepare for a communist takeover)
To: rlmorel
Just about every war we fight we have to learn new—and old—lessons all over again.
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posted on
05/28/2018 8:25:14 PM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(MAGAMarchOnWashington.com)
To: BBell
At the Ft Richardson National Cemetery, there are currently 217 Unknown Japanese soldiers from the Battle of Kiska interred.
Also many Soviets from the Lend-Lease air ferry operations.
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posted on
05/28/2018 9:31:56 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(Having humility really means one is rarely humiliated)
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posted on
05/29/2018 1:24:11 AM PDT
by
Mr Radical
(In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
To: BBell
Had an uncle who enlisted in 1940 wound up in Alaska made it through the Kiska Attu campaign only to get killed in an accident in 45 just before being discharged. Was looking forward to having him back when a Western Union messenger arrived with the telegram informing us of his passing. Bawled my eyes out. RIP Cpl Edward Boska USA his remains was transferred to Camp Butler Illinois National Vet cemetery.
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posted on
05/29/2018 4:59:12 AM PDT
by
mosesdapoet
(Mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin another gem posted in the wilderness)
To: JudgemAll
My Drill Instructor was many things, sassy not among them. ;~)
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posted on
05/29/2018 7:26:00 AM PDT
by
major_gaff
(University of Parris Island, Class of '84)
To: the_daug
To: Fai Mao
To: DLfromthedesert
My father also fought on Guam (USMC)—earned a Silver Star and a Purple Heart. When I was a kid I heard stories about Guam but in his final years he would mostly talk about the fighting on Okinawa the next year.
To: T-Bone Texan
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posted on
05/29/2018 3:58:03 PM PDT
by
the_daug
To: sargon
My father being from Massachusetts, I remember the incident where 2 or 3 German spies or saboteurs sneaked ashore in New England, deploying from a mini-sub or some such, with the goal of sabotaging infrastructure and/or gathering intelligence. If I recall correctly, they were all apprehended or killed rather quickly. The "spy-ring" comprised three Germans and an American turncoat. They were discharged by U-Boot in Frenchman's Bay near Bar Harbor, Maine. They had $50,000 in genuine U.S. currency which represented a significant investment for the hard currency strapped Dritte Reich. They caught a bus on Route 1 for Boston, and hence to New York. (If anyone asked about their accents, they were instructed to say that they were Norwegian seamen.) The local sheriff's son noticed their tracks in the snow, and he and his father searched for them. They reported it to the FBI, who took the incident seriously.
In the event, the cunning spy-ring liked new clothes, good dining and Broadway shows a lot more than sabotage and spy-craft. The turncoat American got cold feet and called a high school friend who was working for the FBI and J. Edgar Hoover's G-men rolled up the invincible Nazi Supermen in no time. (The Brits would have turned them.)
The Germans were executed after a summary court-martial, having accomplished less than nothing, and the American, who turned them in, was imprisoned and repatriated to Germany after the War.
To: the_daug
To: PGR88
Attu doesnt appear to be that much farther away. The Japanese began building an airbase on Shemya (I've been there) about 30 mile to the east. The Americans finished the base, and it was packed with P-38's and B-24's. There were 20,000 GIs there. They bombed Honshu around the clock. The suicide rate among the GIs was quite high. There's girl behind every tree. There are no trees.
To: T-Bone Texan
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posted on
05/29/2018 4:59:19 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
To: BBell
Another major result of the Aleutian Campaign, was the shooting down and subsequent capture in flyable condition of a Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero fighter.
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posted on
05/29/2018 5:09:18 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I heard about Shemya back in the 1980s, and they still referred to “the girl behind every tree.”
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posted on
05/29/2018 5:15:10 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
To: painter; laplata; rlmorel
The Aleutian campaign was a Japanese Faint to draw the Americans away from Midway Attack!
Yeah in that it created worry that made us have to stretch and re-deploy resources we didnt have to spare.
And no.
Imperial Headquarters nursed a conviction that the Aleutians were being built up as a jumping off point for an alternate invasion route to Japan and thought to establish a presence in the area for an outer defense perimeter of the empire to keep watch and guard against such a move the inability to acquire any credible intel information to confirm or debunk Allied intentions only fed their paranoia. On our part, though the shorter distances involved made it a tempting alternative invasion route, that scenario had been studied and ultimately discarded as way too rough and difficult for such an undertaking. Also in the event that Russia came in to the Pacific Theatre against the Japanese, shipping bound from the West Coast to Petropavlovsk or Vladivostok would have to go through the area. Outside of perceived humiliation of having our turf being occupied by enemy forces, we couldnt have the possibility of Jap bases sitting right smack in the middle of a line of communications and heckling our shipping those guys had to go, one way or the other. Imperial Headquarters suffered from the same affliction that their counterparts in Europe did highly trained and mostly competent personnel and accompanying resources wasted on goofy strategy ideas.
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posted on
05/29/2018 5:41:25 PM PDT
by
lapsus calami
(What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
To: Fiji Hill; Calvin Locke
Another example of gross misuse of talent and resources. Tanaka had been leading the same battle group with the same personnel from the time it was formed in the summer of 1941, training all the time and honing their coordination & tactics they were very good and quite dangerous only to be utilized as armed freighters to make milk runs in support of flawed strategy decisions. Tanaka hated it as an indignity, but suffered it because orders are orders. His downfall came when he made reports about all the stupid crap going on and criticized the overall strategy up-talking to Imperial Headquarters was a no-no. Even though he was right, that wasnt seen as his place to be doing he was supposed to shut up, follow the orders, do what he was told no matter what he felt personally. And consequently ended up sailing a desk until the end of the war.
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posted on
05/29/2018 5:42:02 PM PDT
by
lapsus calami
(What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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