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If you’re looking for a good read this dreary January
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I highly recommend Ian Toll’s War in the Pacific trilogy. I just finished volume 3 and I learned a lot. Bull Halsey almost got relieved of command 3 times (twice for running into typhoons). Adms Nimitz and King held back because he was so popular at home. Also we really had no answer to kamikazes. Brutal war, I am surprised my grandfather survived as a marine. Tarawa, Saipan. Tininian. Iwo Jima. Okinawa. Man had a lot of luck…
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Toll's a good writer. Spruance was a better Admiral than Halsey, but didn't have the nickname or bombast, imho.
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That's crazy Corners.   My Gran was at Guadalcanal, the Marshall Islands, and Okinawa.
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Sounds good, will have to check it out.. Thanks.
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My (step) Grandad had the puckered scars up his body from landing and a Japanese machine gun stitching up his left side. He said his entire platoon died that day. He said it was the last big island before Japan.
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My grandfather was injured in Hawaii on the way to somewhere in the Pacific theatre.  Fell off a truck, broke his leg, and was in the hospital for a month or so, and then shipped back to Thomaston, GA…but, not before he traded two cartons of cigarettes and a case of beer for a german officers luger and leather holster similar to the one below, though it is in much better shape than the example.

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