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Ardennes posted:Sorry for the spoiler, but yeah, it eventually landed on the guy least qualified for the job. The IJN by mid-1944 was largely a spent force and an aggressive strategy only really works if you can do serious damage with sustainable causalities. Battle of Leyte Gulf = Hood's Tennessee Campaign
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Battle of Leyte Gulf = Hood's Tennessee Campaign so what, surigao strait is franklin?
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Raskolnikov38 posted:so what, surigao strait is franklin? Actually Franklin is Phillipine Sea and Nashville is Leyte Gulf
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Also, I think Hood had a better chance of actually doing something than Toyoda did even if both were in a desperate situation.
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every time i read about the western theater its boundary keeps getting pushed east. technically sherman in savannah on the atlantic ocean is the western theater. the eastern theater feels confined to the chesapeake
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i say swears online posted:every time i read about the western theater its boundary keeps getting pushed east. ---- Jeff Davis reading telegrams 1864-5
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Ardennes posted:Also, I think Hood had a better chance of actually doing something than Toyoda did even if both were in a desperate situation. I don't think either of them had a chance and I think it was the same stupid "strategy" both times
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:---- Jeff Davis reading telegrams 1864-5 lmao
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:---- Jeff Davis reading telegrams 1864-5 hehe
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I don't think either of them had a chance and I think it was the same stupid "strategy" both times I think Hood could have possibly at least isolated some Union forces and complicated Union operations even if he couldn’t have stopped Sherman. Toyoda sacrificed the Japanese fleet without any real hope of operational success. Both were poor plans, one poorer than the other. Yamamoto has certainly been over-celebrated by some writers to sell books but he was still the best man for the job.
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sullat posted:Bengasine pasta looks just like spaghetti, so I guess it ain't going away. Now every time I eat spaghetti I will think of vilerat. Thanks.
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BENGASINE AIN'T GOIN' AWAY
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Bucatini was an inside job
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:---- Jeff Davis reading telegrams 1864-5 
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reading on henry lane wilson's wiki page and i came across this quirk:quote:Wilson served in the U.S. Foreign Service during the presidencies of William McKinley (1897–1901), Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909), and William Howard Taft (1909–1913), and briefly under Woodrow Wilson. He was appointed Minister to Chile in 1897, remaining in that capacity until 1904, when he was made Minister to Belgium, serving in Brussels during the height of the Congo Free State controversy. was there some sort of reorganization of the state department going on at this time?
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at the time ambassadors were reserved for nations you had an exceptional close relationship to otherwise you sent envoys and plenipotentiaries
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i say swears online posted:reading on henry lane wilson's wiki page and i came across this quirk: That was still pre-WW1, so probably a precedence/protocol thing thing with the European powers only deigning to recognize (shudder) republicans like those Americans as sending ministers and Americans only deigning to recognize Mexico and not (shudder) those potential colonies as neer-peer enough to deserve anything more than a minister or consul.
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The whole world in 1914 was what, 50 countries?
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Some arsehole tried to shoot it, it wasn't rammed by a ship or anything. A variety of dolphin extremely uncommon in NZ waters so maybe just finding friends where it could.
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quote:In 1904, someone aboard the SS Penguin tried to shoot Pelorus Jack with a rifle. “Who must go?” quote:SS Penguin was a New Zealand inter-island ferry steamer that sank off Cape Terawhiti after striking a rock near the entrance to Wellington Harbour in poor weather on 12 February 1909. Penguin's sinking caused the deaths of 75 people, leaving only 30 survivors. This was New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century. quote:Jack was last seen in April 1912.
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Platystemon posted:“Who must go?”
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FDR posted:And while I am talking to you mothers and fathers, I give you one more assurance.
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fdr should have been impeached and convicted over pearl harbor with henry wallace leading the war in europe marines would have been at stalingrad
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and then he would get to press the decision button that lets America annex the entire Soviet Union
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Raskolnikov38 posted:and then he would get to press the decision button that lets America annex the entire Soviet Union the USSR would have declared war on germany before us so even if we had troops they'd still get ownership as each province was capped
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https://mobile.twitter.com/Booker4KY/status/1481685602059886595 "misguided"
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I'm reading Michael Swanson's latest book, which is about America's early involvement in Vietnam. He relates a story about a WSJ journal article from 1958 about a bunch of corruption wrt US involvement in Laos that nobody read that was reprinted in Reader's Digest and then caused a heck of a scandal Just the idea of Reader's Digest blowing the whistle on government corruption and really getting a bunch of people riled up is the most 1950's poo poo I've ever heard
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Just a bunch of dudes in gray suits and black hats taking the train home from work reading Reader's Digest while chainsmoking and being like "Wow. There's a country called Laos. And we're doing some hosed up things there. It sure is 1958."
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ben garrison is our norman rockwell
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 the body language is so good. austria and bulgaria may as well be dabbing. bulgaria is even stabilizing its new crown
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i like looking at city and county historical data on twitter, lookin' up podunk towns and poo poo. took it up as a hobby in 2009 to date, this is the only town i've ever found that lost people every decade of the 20th century except during the great depression. manistee, michigan: 
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paging joementum, i know he'd have a tidbit
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The county where I'm from lost population in every census since it peaked in the 1930 census, with there being about half the number of people today as there as 1930. Individual towns are mostly in decline but occasionally see an increase as old farmers go into one of the local retirement homes.
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I'm not sure Arther McArther is the joke you want to tell four times.
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I wonder how much looted war gold he is sitting on
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e: nm
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