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To: sine_nomine

We were surprised because we all , from FDR down, underestimated the Japs. They took a huge gable and almost swept the boards. If they had hit the storage tanks.....


15 posted on 11/19/2006 8:13:24 PM PST by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: RobbyS
They were just betting that Germany would win in Russia. The day of the attack, German reconnaissance units were within sight of the Moscow skyline.
29 posted on 11/19/2006 8:59:47 PM PST by JasonC
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To: RobbyS

True. We thought of Japan as no military threat at all, even after we entered the war.


63 posted on 11/20/2006 3:38:04 AM PST by sine_nomine (No more RINO presidents. We need another Reagan.)
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