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To: cymbeline

Let’s also remember the sacrifices on Guadalcanal, and Iwo Jima, and Okinawa.

As bad as D-Day was, the Pacific war was even worse.


12 posted on 06/06/2019 8:46:34 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator
As bad as D-Day was, the Pacific war was even worse.

And the 8th Air Force lost more men flying bombing missions over Germany than the Marine Corps lost in the whole war.

14 posted on 06/06/2019 8:56:32 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: dfwgator

“As bad as D-Day was, the Pacific war was even worse.”

Read a book called “Flyboys”. It reinforces what you say.


19 posted on 06/06/2019 9:11:31 AM PDT by cymbeline
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