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To: PGR88
Attu doesn’t 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.

75 posted on 05/29/2018 4:44:13 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

I heard about Shemya back in the 1980s, and they still referred to “the girl behind every tree.”


78 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)
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