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Macanudo

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  1. Correct, they don't get a warm water port but they do distract the citizenry from the fact that they live in a shithole.
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_Squadrons That's what it was.
  3. I don't know that they look to China but instead the other 'Stans.
  4. I think that's the couch Gandorf saw the squirter on?
  5. Well, he sure as shit doesn't have one in Astrophysics, right?
  6. I think the unused plate face on the right is for an 8-track player.
  7. Yep, the Silent Service does not get hardly any ink when it comes to talking about naval operations in the Pacific Theater. Halsey and Spruance and the carriers get all the notoriety but the subs really wrought havoc on Japanese shipping.
  8. As long as you can remember? Try since Peter was the Tsar.
  9. There is no way I could serve on a sub. I'm already a little claustrophobic. Found out yesterday that a family member was on a PT boat in the channel that day with other PT boats as part of Operation Glimmer (The Pas-de-Calais deception.)
  10. Damn, didn't realize she was still alive. Girl from Ipanema is a classic.
  11. When it leaves Omaha and crosses into Iowa and back into Nebraska, there will be some great photo ops as it crosses the Missouri River. Not like there won't be awesome shots to be had all along that route.
  12. Actually, it was more part of the Midway campaign (June 1942). The Japanese were trying to lure our carriers out into a fight. They go more than they bargained for at Midway so the outpost on Attu was kind of screwed long term. They lasted until May 1943
  13. Correct. When the Germans bombed some civilian part of London, Churchill wanted somethign retalitory.
  14. This should be a good series but the more and more research we did post war, the more we learned that the bombing had very little impact on Germany's war making ability. They ran out of gas more than anything.
  15. All things being equal, Cornelius Ryan wrote The Longest Day fairly soon after the war. Lots and lots of people were still alive. On a trip to Normandy in 1949, Ryan became interested in telling a more complete story of Operation Overlord than had been produced to date. He began compiling information and conducting over 1000 interviews as he gathered stories from both the Allies and the Germans, as well as French civilians.[1] In 1956 he began to write down his World War II notes for The Longest Day: 6 June 1944 D-Day, which tells the story of the D-Day Invasion of Normandy. He completed it and published it in 1959.
  16. The Russians bought themselves several weeks if not months.
  17. I'm going to register "Trump This" and "Trump That".
  18. From a tactical point of view, this benefits the Russians. It seems pretty straight forward from a military perspective to blow the damn to limit Ukrainian mobility in that sector. Strategically, it hurts the Russian in Crimea and hurts the Ukrainians everywhere.
  19. There were a bunch of call backs to previous episodes.
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