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3 posted on 03/23/2015 4:38:43 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson

Continued from March 18.

John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

4 posted on 03/23/2015 4:40:49 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson

From Nimitz Graybook Extensive ice flows encountered forced DesRon 57 to abandon bombardment of SURIBACHI. My wiki search produced these five references Suribachi can refer to: • Suribachi and surikogi, Japanese mortar and pestle • Mount Suribachi, mountain on Iwo Jima, Japan • Mount Suribachi (Antarctica), mountain in Antarctica • USS Suribachi (AE-21), ship of the United States Navy • Suribachi-class ammunition ship, class of ship of United States Navy Omitting the three non place references, we can also omit Mount Suribachi (Antarctica), as it dates to 1973. Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima which is at 24°45′01″N 141°17′20″ calculated as about 1623 miles north of the equator and slightly higher than Hawaii. Was this referring to another place and they got the spelling wrong or was there really icebergs that far south.

14 posted on 03/23/2015 10:20:27 AM PDT by Steven Scharf

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