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To: SAMWolf
Great read, Sam. What a fight!

The language of the account you found is interesting - florid and a bit archaic.

This battle reminds me somewhat of the battle for Normandy in that the two sides pounded each other into basically a tie, but neither the Germans nor the Japanese could afford the losses because unlike the US they didn't have the industrial capacity to quickly produce replacement equipment or the ability to train large numbers of replacement personnel.

29 posted on 09/25/2003 9:10:56 AM PDT by colorado tanker (USA - taking out the world's trash since 1776)
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To: colorado tanker
I noticed the usage of English was not what you'd see much today, seems to be based more on the King's English rather than American English.
34 posted on 09/25/2003 9:55:27 AM PDT by SAMWolf (A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.)
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