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re: Midway Atoll Today - site of Battle of Midway - June 4-6, 1942 - pics
Posted on 6/6/26 at 7:43 pm to sledgehammer
Posted on 6/6/26 at 7:43 pm to sledgehammer
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I’m guessing you have a collection of pacific islands. I’m curious, what do you have? Boy, I’d love to have a vial of Iwo Jima black ash sand
I wish... All I have is Sand from Omaha Beach...But I thought that I would ask... I agree with sand from Iwo Jima...
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Posted on 6/6/26 at 8:01 pm to sledgehammer
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love to have a vial of Iwo Jima black ash sand
Hands down, the hottest place I've ever been to. We took a C-130 space-A resupply flight (in and out, same day.) There was so much UX, nobody touched anything, anywhere in the sand, and you saw rounds, mortar tails, etc. It is the black you imagine. You get baked from above and below.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 8:40 pm to CharlesUFarley
Indeed. The lone Japan sub shelling the west coast hardly compares to the fuel consumption of a fleet. Hawaii was pretty much their operational limit and Nimitz was willing to let Japan have Midway if it meant saving his forces. He knew they couldn’t resupply Midway. He’d just attack and retake it later if Japan did take it.
Midway was significant. Sinking their carriers was important. Guadalcanal is where the grind started and the war began to turn.
By mid to late 1943 the two ocean navy was built and in being. That was an invasion fleet and Japan wasn’t winning anything after the US put that thing to use.
Midway was significant. Sinking their carriers was important. Guadalcanal is where the grind started and the war began to turn.
By mid to late 1943 the two ocean navy was built and in being. That was an invasion fleet and Japan wasn’t winning anything after the US put that thing to use.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 8:56 pm to Spankum
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How were you allowed to go there…I would think it would be off limits or something,
I could be mistaken, but I think OP lives on some remote Pacific island as a government contractor or something. I cant remember, but it is like one of the famous remote islands like Easter or Ascension Islands.
I always look forward to his posts about such remote living. Another cool post in the OP.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 9:01 pm to Volt
Been there once as a Marine. We stopped to refuel on the way to Guam. I am still pissed the CO never let us off the plane. I woulda grabbed some sand or a rock, knowing I'd never get that chance again. This was in the 80's. 
Posted on 6/7/26 at 12:10 pm to LemmyLives
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Hands down, the hottest place I've ever been to. We took a C-130 space-A resupply flight (in and out, same day.) There was so much UX, nobody touched anything, anywhere in the sand, and you saw rounds, mortar tails, etc. It is the black you imagine. You get baked from above and below.
Can here to post a couple things..
Thanks for your post and your Service. It is appreciated by Civilians like myself...
Adding, I think the hottest place I ever was was Belize, Looking at the Mayan Ruins... OMG, how they lived in the ursed hot jungle is beyond me.. It was brutal on an old fat man.
Posted on 6/7/26 at 1:30 pm to Volt
Great post. Get these other posters some sand!!! I am sure it is illegal somehow but just do it. 
Posted on 6/7/26 at 1:46 pm to LSU713Tiger
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While we did fight a 2 front war, it never got close to our land. If it did, it would’ve changed
Except for Pearl Harbor, the Aleutians, Japanese explosive balloons, and German submarine attacks immediately off our coasts
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