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April 24, 1942 - Allied intelligence cracks Japanese codes!
Posted on 4/24/21 at 9:13 am
Posted on 4/24/21 at 9:13 am
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After last week's Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, pretty much the entire Japanese fleet is sent out looking for American ships. They do not find them, but the enormous amount of radio traffic they generate is a treasure trove for Allied codebreakers to work on. The Allies ship 46 British Spitfire planes to Malta...and all of them are destroyed by the Axis within 48 hours. Germany begins bombing tourist and cultural destinations in Britain, and to make things even worse for the British this week, they realize they can't hold Burma and are now making tracks for India, with the Japanese Army in hot pursuit.
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Posted on 4/24/21 at 9:17 am to RollTide1987
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Germany begins bombing tourist and cultural destinations in Britain,
If they had kept on blasting the radar installations they would have been much further ahead.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 9:23 am to RollTide1987
One of my patients was a Doolittle raider that bailed out in China after the mission. Really cool guy, and was an honor taking care of him. Guy was laid back and stoic as all get out, would never bring the raid up unless you pried it out of him.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 9:39 am to BuckyCheese
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If they had kept on blasting the radar installations they would have been much further ahead.
Too little too late by 1942. The Germans had moved on to bigger and better things. These bombings were merely retaliatory strikes.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 10:57 am to CamdenTiger
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One of my patients was a Doolittle raider
Wow! That is really incredible. So many people look at sports figures as heroes, but you helped an actual hero. The courage he displayed in his youth helped inspire a nation. You touched history.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 10:58 am to RollTide1987
the modern US military is more concerned with sex changes and cross dressing. They could never pull that off now
Posted on 4/24/21 at 11:00 am to mametoo
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Wow! That is really incredible. So many people look at sports figures as heroes, but you helped an actual hero. The courage he displayed in his youth helped inspire a nation. You touched history.
“All put together don’t have as much as George Floyd has in his little finger.”
-Soy Boy Roy
Posted on 4/24/21 at 11:02 am to Jack Daniel
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the modern US military is more concerned with sex changes and cross dressing. They could never pull that off now
Because the rank and file keeps getting softer, so the military will end up placating very average people.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 11:37 am to RollTide1987
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and to make things even worse for the British this week, they realize they can't hold Burma and are now making tracks for India, with the Japanese Army in hot pursuit
The Burma Railway is one of the most horrific stories from WW2.
Posted on 4/24/21 at 11:49 am to VADawg
Spent the day at the WWII museum yesterday. Got very emotional several times. I had been there once before, but it’s so much bigger and better now.
Posted on 4/25/21 at 5:27 am to Jack Daniel
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the modern US military is more concerned with sex changes and cross dressing. They could never pull that off now
Actually many of the code breakers were rather odd.
Of course we need a whole lot more that are normal to do the vast majority of jobs in the military.
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