Posted on 04/01/2016 6:35:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s hard to believe the resolve the United States once showed in defeating enemies. One wonders if in a 24/7 news cycle of “living room wars” whether this nation could have ever mounted the sustained effort it took to join the Allies in stopping Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.
Americans today would find such will to win at any cost difficult to comprehend.
Perhaps with Easter just passed, it is fitting to remember Easter of 1945 when the invasion of Okinawa, the last battle of World War II and the largest sea-air-land operation in history, began. It would also be the bloodiest campaign of the Pacific and a grim foretaste of what to expect in the planned invasion of Japan itself.
On Easter Sunday, April 1, 1945 the landing crafts carrying the first wave of the U.S. Marines and Army G.I.s chugged towards the beaches of the island of Okinawa, just 350 miles south of mainland Japan....
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I’m sure it won’t survive another establishment president.
All my relatives were in the ETO as far as I know. But to answer the question about the headline, no.
I will fight for my state, my city, where I live. I will ot be forced to fight for what fedgov is today and what this country promotes and hates at the federal level.
I will not die for liberals or illegals. I will not die to advance fedgov warped ideals, or global corporation goals. I will die for my faith, my family and friends, and my home. That is my distinction.
It’s crazy to think that our military has been told to consider global warming impacts in our military operations.
Can you imagine if General Eisenhower had been compelled to consider the carbon footprint of the Normandy invasion???
So now, under current practices, we wouldn’t be able to invade Okinawa as we did.
My Dad was in the Pacific but he was in the Phillipines and New Guinea. Plenty of Japs to go around.
The way things are now, World War II would have played out completely differently than it did then.
We would not have committed to total victory after Pearl Harbor.
We would not have gotten involved in Europe at all, because the European Axis powers had not attacked us. We would have been limited to actions against Japan only. And we would not have set the goal of total victory.
A few years ago I toured a U.S. Navy ship. The gunners mate showed us his weapons, including the CWIS. I asked him what would happen if there were 8 or 9 Kamikazes attacking his ship at the same time, as happened at Okinawa. He said that they would get hit.
However, the Axis powers had declared war against us -- which makes it hard to avoid declaring war against them.
..gunners mate said that the ship would get hit. The CWIS would not get all of the Kamikazes in it’s 20 second burst.
My Dad was there in the US Army. Unlike some people,(not meaning you, 2nd Div) he did not spend the rest of his life bragging about it or making up lies about his heroism (John Kerry, etc, etc.)
Hitler stupidly declared war on the US, solving FDR’s problem for him.
Americans in name only today would find such will to win at any cost difficult to comprehend.
My dad was there: 1st Marine Division, G27
He just passed away last November. He never talked about it much up until the last few years.....the stories he told were almost unbelievable what these guys went thru.
He managed to make it to DC to visit the memorial. Typed in his info trying to see if any others of his battalion were alive...no responses. He said most em got killed in Korea. He had had enough and got out after the WW2.
At that same time in 1945, dad was otherwise occupied, a half a world away...
Off topic, but I am stunned and saddened by the ignorance of so many people about our history, and about World War II.
Too many people, especially young people, have no idea that the world we live in exists because we defeated true evil in World War II.
They do not know what you are talking about if you mention Anzio, Dunkirk, D-Day, Battle of the Bulge, Battle of Britain, Battle of Midway, Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, or how Jimmy Doolittle’s raid on Tokyo rallied the morale of our nation.
Some more liberal people parrot back liberal views that we committed war crimes, such as the bombing of Dresden and the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, without putting those events in any context.
Some liberal types call various conservative or Republican politicians Hitler, again without any historic knowledge or context of how truly evil the real Hitler was.
Just a few things I wanted to mention, regarding World War II. I hope and pray we never see World War III. But these idiots who talk about the evils of racism and poverty and lecture us how black lives matter and sexism, have no clue about what true evils we have fought in our history.
Don’t worry, those same persons are experts in stuff that really matters like “climate change”
One uncle at Iwo Jima...5 in the European theater. Our family was lucky by most standards, we only lost one at Anzio.
In answer to the headline question...no.
Rules of engagement have changed for the military. And I fear the people of this country wouldn’t pull together and stay involved like most did during WWII.
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