Posted on 08/07/2019 11:47:50 AM PDT by Perseverando
The South Pacific had many major battles during World War II:
Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941,
Wake Island, Dec. 7-23, 1941,
Doolittle Raid, April 18, 1942,
Coral Sea, May 4-8, 1942,
Midway, June 4-7, 1942,
Guadalcanal campaign, Aug. 7, 1942-Feb. 9, 1943,
Gilbert & Marshall Islands campaign, 1943–44:
Makin Island, Aug. 17-18, 1942,
Tarawa, Nov. 20, 1943,
Makin, Nov. 20-23, 1943,
Kwajalein, Feb. 14, 1944,
Eniwetok, Feb. 17, 1944,
Truk Island, Feb. 17-18, 1944, Mariana & Palau Islands campaign 1944:
Saipan, June 16, 1944,
Philippine Sea, June 19-20, 1944,
Guam, July 21, 1944,
Tinian, July 24, 1944,
Peleliu, Sept. 15, 1944,
Angaur, Sept. 17, 1944,
Leyte & Leyte Gulf, Oct. 23-29, 1944 (Largest WWII naval battle and possibly largest naval battle in world history),
Iwo Jima, Feb. 19, 1945;
Okinawa, April 1, 1945.
After the Guadalcanal campaign, which was the Allied forces first major offensive, the U.S. began island hopping, securing the Solomon islands.
Lieutenant John F. Kennedy commanded the PT-109, one of the small 80 foot-long Navy patrol torpedo boats used to monitor and disrupt the Tokyo Express - the shipping lanes used by Imperial Japan's destroyers through the Ferguson and Blackett Straits.
PT boats operated almost exclusively at night, often in fog and without reliable radar. They fired their torpedoes at close range, then sped away.
On the foggy night of August, 2, 1943, PT-109 was idling on one engine to avoid detection while awaiting approaching enemy destroyers.
The crew was shocked to realize they were in the direct path of an oncoming speeding destroyer, the Amagiri.
With just seconds to respond, they were unable to avoid collision.
The PT-109 was rammed, broken in half, and began to began to sink.
After the war, author Robert Donovan interviewed crew
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Why couldn’t it have been Ted that was killed?
I do not believe he could possibly come close to saying this today if he were around. What is more, he would be drummed out of today’s rat party:
Kennedy concluded:
“The basic presumption of the moral law, the existence of God, man’s relationship to Him - there is generally consensus on those questions.”
THAT would have been an event to create a better United States!
Again, my personal opinion, but I've always believed Ted Kennedy was given a choice to get on board with the deep state or join Joe, John and Bobby.
In his later years, he was a raging alcoholic. The only thing we know for sure about Chappaquiddick is that we don't know what really happened. The guy named his dog "Splash." Did he drive off a bridge and disappear for eight hours, or did someone else run the car off a bridge and hold him for eight hours, explaining how badly things could go if he didn't fall in line?
I'm not saying it was aliens ...
... but it was aliens ...
I agree with your response. I would also add that Kennedy’s promoting of NASA and a trip to the moon was a major milestone in America’s history leading to our dominance in science and engineering and computers.
Interesting comment.
I strongly disagree that JFK was a great president. His foreign policy was marked by a string of failures including the Vienna Summit, the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin Wall, the transfer of Dutch New Guinea to pro-Communist Indonesia and the murder of South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem. His domestic policies included allowing federal workers to unionize.
As for Bobby, he started off right, working for Joe McCarthy, but in the '60's he was moving left. Concern that he might become president was a major incentive for me to become a conservative political activist.
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