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1ST ARMY DRIVES 3 MILES IN SLEET INTO BULGE; NECK OF SALIENT NOW 11 MILES AS 3D GAINS TOO (1/5/45)
Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library
| 1/5/45
| Drew Middleton, Harold Denny, Harold Callender, Henry Shapiro, Pertinax, Robert Trumbull, more
Posted on 01/05/2015 4:31:14 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
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TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: history; milhist; realtime; worldwarii
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To: colorado tanker
Was he in Georgia, do you mind me asking? My dad was also saved from near certain death by the A-bomb...
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01/05/2015 5:21:24 PM PST
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Seizethecarp
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To: Seizethecarp
No, he was in Pennsylvania doing classroom stuff. He hadn't even got to flight school. But, if the war had stretched deep into 1946 . . . .
The A Bomb sure saved a lot of lives. I hate to think about the bloodbath if we'd had to invade the Japanese mainland.
To: colorado tanker
The A Bomb sure saved a lot of lives. I hate to think about the bloodbath if we'd had to invade the Japanese mainland.In August '45 my dad had returned from Europe with the 20th Armored Division, was on a 30-day furlough, and then was to ship out for the Pacific. The 20th was scheduled to be in the first wave of the invasion of Tokyo Bay in March '46, and 100% casualties were expected.
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01/05/2015 7:19:07 PM PST
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Hebrews 11:6
(Do you REALLY believe that (1) God IS, and (2) God IS GOOD?)
To: colorado tanker
Sergeant Lafayette Pool, the biggest tanker ace of WWII Was he under Patton's command?
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01/06/2015 9:23:50 AM PST
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PapaNew
(The grace of God & freedom always win the debate in the forum of ideas over unjust law & government)
To: PapaNew
Pool was in the 3rd Armored Division, which I believe was under First Army command.
By this time, however, Pool had suffered his wound and was back in the States. He compiled those incredible numbers without participating in the Bulge or the invasion of Germany.
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