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An Uneventful Monday on the Eve of War: September 10th 2001
It is hard to imagine that 10 years ago the furthest thing from my mind and probably anyone else’s mind was that a brazen attack would be launched on the United States. We never imagined that by10 AM the following … Continue reading
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Veterans Day 2010: Counting the Cost of War
“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should get too fond of it.” General Robert E. Lee Veterans Day had become a rather somber occasion for me over the past decade and since returning from Iraq in … Continue reading
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Background to “The Pacific” Part V: Okinawa
This is the next to last installment of my series “Background to “The Pacific” which deals with certain subjects themes and battles dealt with in the HBO series by that name. This article deals with the Okinawa campaign which is … Continue reading
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The Pacific Part Three: Tarawa Paving the Way to Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa
Introduction to Part Three While the First Marine Division slogged its way through the hell of the New Britain campaign the battle for the Pacific’s primary focus became the Central Pacific which was a far different sort of war than … Continue reading
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Background on the Pacific Part Two: Guadalcanal the Marines take the Offensive
This is the second “backgrounder” that I am posting to help my readers not acquainted with the War in the Pacific who desire to whet their whistle so to speak get an introduction to this war. While the series appears … Continue reading
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Background to “The Pacific” Part One: The Guadalcanal Campaign and the Beginning of Joint Operations
The Battle of Bloody Ridge Note: This is the first of a series that I will post on the campaign in the Pacific. Some are older articles that I wrote for my Masters Degree program and others will be new … Continue reading
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Okinawa: Göttdammerung in the Pacific
Plans and Preparation The United States decided to invade Okinawa in the fall of 1944 following the seizure of Peleliu and the Philippine landings. The planned invasion of Formosa was cancelled after General Simon Bolivar Buckner objected.[i] Buckner argued that … Continue reading
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