OK so I'm a little late.
They did NOT get their ass handed to them at Coral Sea. It was a draw. Although since it technically stopped the Japanese for the first time, it was more a moral victory.
Midway: Ok they was grade A ass whoopin (via a little luck and some codebreaking, and Japanses battle doctrine).
Guadacanal: Thats when we took over. After Midway, Fleets were roughly on par. And the last thing you want to do with the good ol USA is get in a meat grinder where you chew up ships/pilots/resources. And Fall of 42 was just that: a meatgrinder.
Then there is this "What if" (we lose Midway)
So while Midway was important, many of us are of the opinion that the Guadacanal campaign was the turning point.
Or Pearl Harbor, because you just pissed the shit out of the #1 economy in the world.
Both Grandpas fought in the Pacific.
One got to ride the "new" Yorktown home!
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We would never meet that capacity unless the country straightens its shit out.
Today it would take ten years of study before they built a dinghy.
Salute to all you haters! Pizza and pineapple for sale on the same advertisement.
That’s right, drink it all up and let it flow through you.
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At least he had that bed sheet around his head to keep warm.......
I think I saw that car run at Union Grove in the late 60's, early 70's. Smoked all 4 the entire run.
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Is that from 2019 before Brandon took office?
My plasma cutter is here! (insert evil laugh here)
Sun is so far south now it illumes the side of the water tower
Wonder how much of what is seen there is original.......
Every day @0500 you fire this bad boy up and ride down to the mailbox.
