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08-14-2019, 03:43 PM | #1 |
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World War II: The Pacific Islands
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Absolutely awesome pictures, thanks again for sharing!!
In the Net there is so much information that it's a shame that many young people nowadays are not interested in history!
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I grew up watching the series World at War by the BBC (I believe) they were fascinating to me seeing the ship battles, then land battles.
We inundated our son with so much history that he likes it, but not as much as me ed |
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Me too; I still have the set of VHS tapes, The World at War-narrated by Walter Cronkite.
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Thanx Curly 1
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Same here, when I was young they used to broadcast many documentaries about WWI and WWII, then I was lucky enough to receive first hand info both from one of my grandfathers who fought against the Austrians during the WWI, and from my dad that was sent to Southern France during the WWII and after the armistice of September 8, 1943 joined the Partisans.
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Thanks Curly1! We have a family friend who was in the 6th Marine Division during WW2 and fought on some of the islands mentioned in the pics. He never liked to talk about his experience during this period in his life but last year he opened up a little bit to tell us about the fighting on Okinawa. His Company (Charlie Co) started out on May 10th 1945 with 200 men to take Charlie Hill which they did but by the end of the day there were only 35 of them left. Approximately two weeks later he got hit in the left shoulder by Japanese hand grenade fragments. He had a corpsman dig what he could, pack it with sulfur, bandage it and kept on fighting.
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