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The US Land Forever Leased to England
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| July 12, 2019
| Brian Carlton
Posted on 07/27/2019 9:36:12 AM PDT by bgill
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07/27/2019 9:36:12 AM PDT
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bgill
To: bgill
While on the west coast Japanese subs were shelling areas on the west coast.
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07/27/2019 9:45:10 AM PDT
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mosesdapoet
(mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting for the record hoping some might read and pass around)
To: bgill
Today, a small patch of land on Ocracoke Island where four English sailors are buried is permanently leased to Britain (Credit: Brian Carlton)
To: bgill
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07/27/2019 9:47:39 AM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: bgill
The answer was the building of the Intracostal Waterway.
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07/27/2019 9:53:04 AM PDT
by
Cold Heart
(Deception, the greatest weapon of the demcrats.)
To: bgill
There is a book written by Michael Gammon entitled “Operation Drumbeat” which details Germany’s U-Boat attacks on the East Coast shipping at the start of WW II. The US Navy was totally unprepared for the U-Boat attacks.
A great read!
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posted on
07/27/2019 9:55:20 AM PDT
by
TaMoDee
(The Pack will be back in 2019! Go Pack!!)
To: mosesdapoet
While on the west coast Japanese subs were shelling areas on the west coast.
That was after war was declared in 1941. I had my first legal drink at a bar that included timbers (The bar is/was called The Timbers) from the shelled pier in Santa Barbara.
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07/27/2019 9:57:07 AM PDT
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hanamizu
To: bgill
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posted on
07/27/2019 10:10:53 AM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
07/27/2019 10:24:27 AM PDT
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fieldmarshaldj
(Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
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07/27/2019 10:24:51 AM PDT
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fieldmarshaldj
(Who will think of the gerbils ? Just say no to Buttgiggity !)
To: fieldmarshaldj
HORRYWOOD !
Early in 1942, my home town, Long Beach, was convinced that it was under air attack by the Japanese. In early ‘42 California was sure it was going to be attacked. I had a boss who remembered the ‘attack’ vividly.
You can read about it here:
http://www.theairraid.com
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07/27/2019 10:32:54 AM PDT
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hanamizu
To: hanamizu
The IJN wanted to attack the US mainland like Doolittle attacked Japan. But they had to give it up when Yamamoto found ‘Doolittle’ was unpronounceable in Japanese.
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07/27/2019 10:38:31 AM PDT
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sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
To: TaMoDee
If the Germans utilized the U-Boat more strategically,the war very well may have turned out quite different. That goes for their under utilization of their air power.
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07/27/2019 10:40:17 AM PDT
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shanover
(...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
To: sparklite2
My stepson, who lived in Japan for a while, took a picture at his gym. “Keep Rockers Clean”.
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07/27/2019 10:41:02 AM PDT
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hanamizu
To: TaMoDee
The US Navy was totally unprepared for the U-Boat attacks.So was the German navy. Germans never had enough u-boats. The battleship Bismark weighted 41,000 long tons. A type VIIC U-boat weighted 759 long tons. 54 U-boats could have been built instead of the Bismarck.
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07/27/2019 10:43:39 AM PDT
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fso301
To: hanamizu
Shouldn’t it have been, “Keep rockers crean’?
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07/27/2019 10:46:30 AM PDT
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sparklite2
(Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
To: fso301
The battleship Bismark weighted 41,000 long tons. A type VIIC U-boat weighted 759 long tons. 54 U-boats could have been built instead of the Bismarck. The Bismarck, the Tirpitz, they were almost obsolete before their construction was complete. Doenitz lobbied hard, unsuccessfully, for more U-boats. Thank God.
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07/27/2019 10:50:01 AM PDT
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Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
To: TaMoDee
The US Navy was totally unprepared for the U-Boat attacks.Adm. King refused to listen to the British advice to run convoys instead of one ship at a time. His argument was lack of escort vessels, but he hated the British and wouldn't listen to them. Lotta people died because of that.
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07/27/2019 10:51:51 AM PDT
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Oatka
To: Oatka
Thank you for that bit of extra history.
As a kid reading about WWII, I couldn’t figure out why the convoy system didn’t get utilized until later.
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07/27/2019 11:07:35 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Hola. Me llamo Inspector Carlton Lassiter. Me gusta queso.)
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