World War II History. The Men and the Equipment.

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Since my last post got so much attention, I'll post something that was just a bit more tragic in the failure.

The July 20, plot to assassinate  der schikelgruber.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20_July_plot

The recent movie Valkryie was loosely based on this plot although the name Valkryie was not part of the actual assassination plot but the takeover of the knot-z command structure.

Please note. This has nothing to do with any other event that is dated July 20 at all. Past, present, or future.

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Today is VJ Day. Victory over Japan in 1945.

I have to thank God because had the war continued, I might never have been. One of my Grand Dads had been drafted and was scheduled to be included in the Invasion of the Japanese home Islands.

Casualties had been expected to be horrendous.

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My father was shot down over France, spent more than a year in a Nazi prison camp, upon being liberated was sent home on a month’s leave for his mother to fatten him up (he was six feet and got home weighing just over 100-pounds) then reported to Texas for training in newer aircraft to continue the war against Japan. He was pretty happy about VJ Day, too.

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My father was shot down over France, spent more than a year in a Nazi prison camp, upon being liberated was sent home on a month’s leave for his mother to fatten him up (he was six feet and got home weighing just over 100-pounds) then reported to Texas for training in newer aircraft to continue the war against Japan. He was pretty happy about VJ Day, too.

We're members of the Lucky VJ Club.

 

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It’s interesting to me that we didn’t hear the usual anti-nuke hysteria on Hiroshima and Nagasaki days. I guess even that is fading from memory.

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August 23, 1939. The day in history when diplomats from the international socialists and diplomats from the national socialists decided to meet and and greet and divide Poland. By force of arms.

Murdering and conquering.

It's what any kind of socialist is best at. Don't believe me? Just look up the body counts from the Holodomor or the cultural revolution in chicommuna.  Those are just a teaser. You can find more if you look.

https://spectator.org/eight-decades-on-lessons-from-perhaps-the-most-evil-diplomatic-triumph-in-history/

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Secret WWII Jewish British military commandos finally come out of the shadows

87 members were mainly Jewish refugees from Germany, Austria

Declassifying records, author Leah Garrett uncovers amazing story of X Troop, a unit of German-speaking refugee volunteers determined to outwit and outfight the Nazis at all costs

https://www.timesofisrael.com/secret-wwii-jewish-british-military-commandos-finally-come-out-of-the-shadows/

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101-year-old returns to Pearl Harbor to remember those lost

https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-veterans-oklahoma-world-war-ii-d3db8d688fb1c8fcc2045c00266f3aff

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“At 1:23pm Zeros were approaching Pearl Harbor where it was 7:53am. At that moment the flight commander radioed Admiral Nagumo TORA, TORA, TORA@ The repeated code word, meaning "tiger," stood for 'We have succeeded in surprise attack'." Two minutes later torpedo bombers began diving on Battleship Row.”

 John Willard Toland, Infamy: Pearl Harbor and its Aftermath

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Many people have visited the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor but few have visited the USS Utah Memorial on the west side of Ford Island in Pearl Harbor - as it is not open to the general public. I took a boat tour that allowed tourists to see the remains of the USS Utah but that was pre-9/11.  They don't allow that anymore.
The Utah was used as a target ship and the Japanese pilots were specifically told to leave it be but I guess it made for too tempting of a target and as it was berthed where an aircraft carrier usually was, it was hammered.  After taking two aerial torpedo strikes the Utah began to list and settle. As the crew began to abandon the doomed ship,  Chief Watertender Tomich stayed below, secured the boilers and ensure that all the firemen in the area got out. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously. A total 58 men were lost on the USS Utah and remain in the wreckage, while almost 500 were able to escape.  After a failed attempt at salvage, the USS Utah was left as it was.  Considered a war grave, survivors of the Utah are eligible to be interned with their shipmates on board - the Navy is happy to do so if that is their wish.

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The USS Utah Memorial today:
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