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To: Homer_J_Simpson

Continued from March 4.

John Toland, The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

4 posted on 03/08/2015 5:23:11 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson

Continued from yesterday.

James Bradley, with Ron Powers, Flags of Our Fathers

5 posted on 03/08/2015 5:24:17 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson ("Every nation has the government that it deserves." - Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821))

To: Homer_J_Simpson; PapaNew

Page 3, bottom right, “Patton Swam Sauer River to Inspire Men in Attack.”

Under fire, no less. He was an Olympic competitor in the modern pentathlon, after all.

How the men made it across, swimming with bazookas, is a little unclear to me. Aren’t bazookas rather large?

12 posted on 03/08/2015 6:17:04 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Wash, rinse, dry, put away.)

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