To: Zhang Fei
Apples and oranges. Every battle is different. How long did it take the USMC to capture Iwo Jima?
6 posted on
04/22/2024 9:30:37 PM PDT by
rfp1234
(E Porcibus Unum )
To: rfp1234
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rfp1234: [Apples and oranges. Every battle is different. How long did it take the USMC to capture Iwo Jima?]
Iwo Jima took 5 weeks. But everything had to be shipped over from the Mariana Islands while under sporadic Japanese air, surface navy and submarine attack, about 500 miles away. This village is literally on the front lines. And amphibious operations are some of the most complicated combat operations around, because of the way weather, the tides and naval logistics are additional factors that have to be taken into account.
9 posted on
04/22/2024 10:17:47 PM PDT by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
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rfp1234: [Apples and oranges. Every battle is different. How long did it take the USMC to capture Iwo Jima?]
Iwo Jima took 5 weeks. But everything had to be shipped over from the Mariana Islands while under sporadic Japanese air, surface navy and submarine attack, about 500 miles away. This village is literally on the front lines. And amphibious operations are some of the most complicated combat operations around, because of the way weather, the tides and naval logistics are additional factors that have to be taken into account.
10 posted on
04/22/2024 10:18:47 PM PDT by
Zhang Fei
(My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room)
To: rfp1234
Yes. ZF likes to hang out in the dusty webs of ancient history when the irrelevant analogy suits his argument.
28 posted on
04/23/2024 7:49:55 PM PDT by
Gaffer
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