Party on dude!!
Posted on 07/26/2005 8:13:01 PM PDT by SAMWolf
I wish you didn't have to sacrifice like this to make a go of the Wild Bird Center. Just a suggestion but there are always companys (hospitals, insurance, law firms, etc.) that will "farm out" WP, flow sheets and data entry work. In most cases (if they like your hardware) you can work from home. Hope something breaks for you sweets . . .
OHHHH! MYYYYY! I just crack myself up! 8^D
Good for Poland!! :-) Thanks for sharing the pictures with us.
Party on dude!!
Awww, don't worry. I just want to be able to keep myself in Starbucks! LOL. Seriously, it's all about health insurance really. It cost sooooo much when you have to pay for it yourself, and even then it to be able to afford it you have to carry really high deductibles. I'm an excellent typist, I'll look into it but I never believed those "work at home" ads.
(if they like your hardware)
Now why would that matter...oh, you mean that hardware.
Great news and great pics, thanks. :-)
Naughty girl . . . Sam's starting to rub off on you. But that's a good thing. ;-)
The quartermaster general had intended that special winter clothing be issued to the troops participating in the invasion. But the order was rescinded because it was thought that the extra weight of winter uniforms might slow the men down.
When Colonel Earle went forward to see what was holding up the men, the Southern Force commander was killed by a sniper.
The island of Attu measures only 35 miles by 15 miles and is a most inhospitable location on which to conduct military operations. The island is uniformly rocky and barren of trees, brush, or any other cover. The land rises steeply from the water's edge to heights of over 3,000 feet. The lowlands of the island are blanketed with muskeg, a type of bog up to 3 feet deep with a hard crust on top.Attu is shrouded year round with fog that varies in density and can cover the island from the bays to the mountains, creating extreme overcast conditions that limit sunshine to a few days a year. The island normally receives 40 to 50 inches of rain a year, but that rain total accumulates from a constant misting rain that falls 5 or 6 days a week. The temperature during the assault on Attu averaged 25 to 37 degrees Fahrenheit, depending on elevation.
These were the conditions that awaited American soldiers when they arrived to drive the Japanese from the island.
~~~ The planners realized from the beginning that the troops would suffer from the weather, but they reasoned that the entire operation to clear the 1,500 to 2,500 Japanese off Attu would take only 36 hours. This reasoning proved fatal during the course of the invasion. Attu's weather and terrain had a profound impact on the invasion's reception, medical, and combat operations.
~~~ The real logistics failure of the campaign began as early as 12 May, when the first seven casualties from cold-weather injury arrived at the shore hospital. The hospital continued to receive additional cold-weather casualties every day until the conclusion of operations on 30 May. Four days after the anticipated conclusion of operations called for by the planners, the shore hospital received 191 cold-weather casualties.
These casualties were the result of logistics failures. Logisticians failed to ensure that soldiers were equipped with appropriate cold-weather equipment. Most soldiers were issued only normal field jackets, not parkas, and leather boots, not footwear suitable for snow. The island's snow and constant rain, coupled with freezing temperatures, ensured that the soldiers were never dry.
Many soldiers went ashore without their sleeping bags, since the plan was for the bags to follow in a day. Unfortunately, the logistics problems on the beaches ensured that only those supplies critical to the warfight, such as ammunition, flowed from the beaches. Supplies soldiers needed to warm or dry themselves stayed on the beaches. The result was many cases of frostbite and trenchfoot. Cold-weather injuries would account for 31 percent, or 1,200, of the 3,829 total casualties suffered on Attu.
Two Japanese officers, Toshiaki Mukai and Iwa Noda, held a competition of beheading Chinese. They denied the accusation as "imagination" but were confronted with the above evidence published in Tokyo Nicinichi Shimbun. They were executed in 1947 in Nanjing.
LOL!
Morning Phil Dragoo.
The Attu Operation had to have some of the worst "planning" of the war. Some of the decisions made don't even appear to have any common sense behind them. Once again the American fighting man came through despite the downright stupid decisions made by desk jockeys.
BTTT!!!!!
SAM - I dont have reference material in front of me, but if my memory serves me correctly, the Chase & Middleton participated in several island invasions together. Thanks to your FIL for his service - he truely was in both wars.
Great photos at the link you provided Phil, thanks.
The American fighting man has powered through every adversity the enemy, the weather, the terrain, the bureacrat pantywaist pencilneck peckerwoods have thrown at him throughout the history of the Republic, fueled by God, America, motherhood, apple pie, freedom, faith, hope and welch:
For the first half hour on this thread your fotki stuff red-exed--I assume it was a too-busy server as we've got broadband on this end.
"Only 36 hours"--[!]
What on earth were the troops to do if reality did not conform to the pipe dream of romeo echo mike foxtrotters?
Obviously the answer was to lose 1100 to the cold.
For reasons such as this epic disconnect this is a "war story that deserves to be told."
I saw all four pages, great stuff. REMF, yeah.
Fotki gets whacky sometimes but it always comes back.
We think Ollie reads our threads and that's how he gets his ideas for stories. :-)
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