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Incredible pics.
I don't think people have the fortitude to do that anymore 0699.
During WWII it was hard enough to convince people to support the war.
I think it would take something very very bad to get people to commit to that, 9/11 wasn't even enough...
... Shifting gears: Any recommended books on Iwo Jima and Okinawa? I think I'd like to do some reading about the battles.
Thank you. I knew a Marine would have an answer. I'd be disappointed if one of you didn't. ;)
Shifting gears: Any recommended books on Iwo Jima and Okinawa? I think I'd like to do some reading about the battles.
With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge
Helmet for my Pillow by Robert Leckie
I read both these for the first time in HS. They've only gotten better with time.
Not to my recollection of speaking with those who lived through that time (If you have evidence to the contrary I'd be interested to hear it). The American people were really pissed after Pearl Harbor...In the early days of the war Americans living on the west coast of the U.S. were scared that the Japanese would bomb them...And then there were the German subs operating at night on the east coast of the U.S. who used the city lights of places such as Boston, New York, and Jacksonville FL to sink merchant ships using the intercoastal waterway. The subs operated off the shoreline and were able to see the silhouettes of the merchant vessels in the city lights. Several merchant ships were sunk in the spring of 1942, including one ship torpedoed and sunk just a half mile off the shore in front of frightened patrons at a brightly lit amusement park in Jacksonville. The German sub activities got everybody's attention in a hurry.During WWII it was hard enough to convince people to support the war.
Thanks for the incredible pictures.
Not to my recollection of speaking with those who lived through that time (If you have evidence to the contrary I'd be interested to hear it). The American people were really pissed after Pearl Harbor...In the early days of the war Americans living on the west coast of the U.S. were scared that the Japanese would bomb them...And then there were the German subs operating at night on the east coast of the U.S. who used the city lights of places such as Boston, New York, and Jacksonville FL to sink merchant ships using the intercoastal waterway. The subs operated off the shoreline and were able to see the silhouettes of the merchant vessels in the city lights. Several merchant ships were sunk in the spring of 1942, including one ship torpedoed and sunk just a half mile off the shore in front of frightened patrons at a brightly lit amusement park in Jacksonville. The German sub activities got everybody's attention in a hurry.
Needless to say the government got their act together and enforced blackout rules by the end of spring 1942...