Experience of one of the Doolittle raider crews (extreme case of a hard way to earn a living)...

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[ganeemead]

Launching from extreme distance turned a dangerous mission into a near suicide mission

[DuncanWaring]

A really hard way to make a living, from E. B. Sledge "With the Old Breed" about an experience on Okinawa:

Kneeling on the mud, I had dug the hole no more than six or eight inches deep when the odor of rotting flesh got worse. There was nothing to do but continue to dig, so I closed my mouth and inhaled with short shallow breaths. Another spadeful of soil out of the hole released a mass of wriggling maggots that came welling up as though those beneath were pushing them out. I cursed, and told the NCO as he came by what a mess I was digging into.

“You heard him, he said put the holes five yards apart.”

In disgust, I drove the spade into the soil, scooped out the insects, and threw them down the front of the ridge. The next stroke of the spade unearthed buttons and scraps of cloth from a Japanese army jacket buried in the mud—and another mass of maggots. I kept on doggedly. With the next thrust, metal hit the breastbone of a rotting Japanese corpse. I gazed down in horror and disbelief as the metal scraped a clean track through the mud along the dirty whitish bone and cartilage with ribs attached. The shovel skidded into the rotting abdomen with a squishing sound. The odor nearly overwhelmed me as I rocked back on my heels.

I began choking and gagging as I yelled in desperation, “I can't dig in here! There's a dead Nip here!”

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[Getready]

Most likely AI generated voice...English accent on Doolittle Raider?....airmen issued a “point 45 with ammo”...obviously a text to speech AI app...text is “.45”...text to audio says what is the exact text...i.e..”point 45”..just download the text...easier to read plus no disconnected images...otherwise ok...but I’m not gonna watch and listen to a one hour video when I can read the text in 15 minutes...