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Thanks: https://www.youtube.com/@Drachinifel/videos

We were blessed with some great admirals, and first line commanders. Mostly I doubt that the Japanese had any idea how hard we were going to fight back.

And 2 or 3 months after they started it, the little punch in the nose that was Doolittle’s Raid must have made them think, uh, y’know, all our cities are on the coast...

Meanwhile, the bulk of our industrial plants and population was well off our west coast, and protected by a range of high mountains and altiplano about 1000 miles wide. They couldn’t do anything about it.

Parshall’s numbers are something like, the US prewar economy was about 5 times as large as Japan’s, and by the end was about 8 times. Meanwhile our sub fleet immediately went after their shipping. By the end of ‘44 US fleets and planes rarely found any shipping to sink.

They were taken quite by surprise by the surprise attack on their occupation of Guadalcanal, and even more surprised when their naval superiority and (even after the loss of their four big decks at Midway) better flight radius to give them cover out of land bases in the Solomons wound up not working and they had to retreat.

https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/j/japanese-naval-merchant-shipping-losses-wwii.html

If people were careful readers, they’d actually see that message, but then they wouldn’t need it most of the time.

Taffy 3 really took a beating, but they put up such a fight that it buffaloed the Japanese, and they beat a retreat. They weren’t ready to lose the Yamamoto, and probably thought more counterattacking planes were on the way. Our magnificent men saved the US invasion.

The Japanese policy after they started the war against the US was, since there’s not enough fuel supply to keep the entire fleet running, so the loss of ships wasn’t as important. And when they did make a big push, they brought everything, fully fueled or not.

He’s got another recent vid about the Hindenburg, pretty interesting, even though it’s been written about no end.

A childhood friend had a father who served as a cook on one or more Liberty ships. He had trouble sleeping through the night, and would volunteer as an extra lookout. He said in the dark ocean, the white splash as the ship cut slowly through the water made him think of a searchlight, and that worried him.

Surprisingly, Kaiser had never built any ships prior to WWII. Sounds like he did pretty well overall. As you said, you fight with what you have. US torpedoes were terrible for the first couple of years, and complaints about them were met with something to the effect, use them anyway, that’s all we’ve got.

Wawa Ontario Canada Runic inscription

The Wawa Runestone is a bedrock outcrop near Wawa, Ontario, featuring the longest runic inscription on the North American continent and the only known runic text in the world to reproduce the Lord’s Prayer. Discovered in 2018 when a fallen tree exposed the site, the inscription consists of 255 runes carved into a 1.2 by 1.5 meter square of bedrock.

Experts, including runologist Henrik Williams of Uppsala University, confirmed the text is a Swedish-language version of the Lord’s Prayer written in the Futhark alphabet, based on a translation developed by Johannes Bureus in the early 17th century. The inscription is dated to the early to mid-19th century and is believed to have been carved by a Swedish laborer or employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company, which recruited Scandinavians for remote trading posts in the region.

Adjacent to the text is a detailed carving of a Nordic-style longboat with 16 figures, flanked by 14 enigmatic crosses or Xs. Archaeologists believe the stone was deliberately buried after creation and may have served as a site for religious solace for isolated Scandinavian workers. The site, identified as Ontario’s first authenticated runic inscription, is protected and under study for potential development as a tourist attraction highlighting Scandinavian heritage in Canada.

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This topic was posted 1/9/2010, thanks again Shellybenoit and henny penny. Just an update to the ping message.

There'll be Demwit calls for sending US troops (wearing the UN blue helmet regalia) to prop up the commie regime.

YouTube transcript reformatted at textformatter.ai (excerpt).

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Doris "Dorie" Miller was a mess attendant second class aboard the battleship USS West Virginia on December 7th, 1941, in Pearl Harbor. His actions that day were legendary. He helped carry many of his crew members to safety, including his captain. And then he took control of an anti-aircraft gun despite having no training in the weapon and defended his ship, shooting down at least one Japanese aircraft. He became a national hero overnight. He became the first black sailor to be awarded the Navy's highest award for valor in the face of the enemy, the Navy Cross. He was nominated for a Medal of Honor.

Much less remembered was his death just two years later aboard the escort carrier USS Liscome Bay. Miller's death represented the risks faced by the young men who served aboard the ships that were derisively called Kaiser's coffins. The fleet carriers, the Essex carriers, grabbed all the headlines with their sprawling air groups and their fast attacks. But the small carriers, the jeep carriers of the Casablanca class, were the indispensable backbone of Allied naval operations.

The battle in which Dory Miller became a hero put the US into a difficult position regarding naval aviation. In 1941, the US had only seven fleet aircraft carriers, a precious few, even considering that none had been lost at Pearl Harbor. More were being constructed, but fleet carriers took time to build, and the air groups required training.