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RE: How much do you know about the raid on Pearl Harbor?
December 14, 2018 at 5:09 pm
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(December 14, 2018 at 5:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I may not know much about Pearl Harbor, but I know that Abraham Lincoln chopped down that cherry tree with George Washington's wooden teeth. So there.
Boru
When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, John Balushi won a Medal of Honor by dropping a hand grenade into the cockpit of a Mitsubishi zero from atop a ladder leaned against the window of a sorority house in the middle of Ford Island, thus killing the leader of the raid, admiral Hans Yamamoto, ensuring VE Day the next day.
(December 14, 2018 at 5:08 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: (December 14, 2018 at 5:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I may not know much about Pearl Harbor, but I know that Abraham Lincoln chopped down that cherry tree with George Washington's wooden teeth. So there.
Boru
Yeah, and he threw Molly Pitcher across the Potomac.
That’s Molly Pitch-her.
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RE: How much do you know about the raid on Pearl Harbor?
December 14, 2018 at 6:44 pm
(December 14, 2018 at 5:09 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: (December 14, 2018 at 5:02 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I may not know much about Pearl Harbor, but I know that Abraham Lincoln chopped down that cherry tree with George Washington's wooden teeth. So there.
Boru
When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, John Balushi won a Medal of Honor by dropping a hand grenade into the cockpit of a Mitsubishi zero from atop a ladder leaned against the window of a sorority house in the middle of Ford Island, thus killing the leader of the raid, admiral Hans Yamamoto, ensuring VE Day the next day.
(December 14, 2018 at 5:08 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Yeah, and he threw Molly Pitcher across the Potomac.
That’s Molly Pitch-her.
Why no mention of Lizzy Bordon? I suppose that would take 40 posts?
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RE: How much do you know about the raid on Pearl Harbor?
December 14, 2018 at 6:54 pm
(December 14, 2018 at 6:44 pm)Brian37 Wrote: (December 14, 2018 at 5:09 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: When the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, John Balushi won a Medal of Honor by dropping a hand grenade into the cockpit of a Mitsubishi zero from atop a ladder leaned against the window of a sorority house in the middle of Ford Island, thus killing the leader of the raid, admiral Hans Yamamoto, ensuring VE Day the next day.
That’s Molly Pitch-her.
Why no mention of Lizzy Bordon? I suppose that would take 40 posts?
Lizzie borden took an axe,
and gave Mussolini 40 whacks,
When she saw what she had done
She gave Hitler and Tojo forty one?
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RE: How much do you know about the raid on Pearl Harbor?
December 14, 2018 at 6:56 pm
Doesn't scan.
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RE: How much do you know about the raid on Pearl Harbor?
December 14, 2018 at 7:38 pm
I missed 3 that I had no clue about.
Fascinating quiz.
If you have to lie to bolster your argument, it’s time to rethink the validity of the argument.
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RE: How much do you know about the raid on Pearl Harbor?
December 14, 2018 at 8:08 pm
I missed some of the hard numbers, and the idiotic one about who lead the Nagumo Kido Butai.
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RE: How much do you know about the raid on Pearl Harbor?
December 14, 2018 at 9:03 pm
(December 14, 2018 at 9:43 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: The Nagasaki bomb went off directly over >5,000 Japanese troops, the most deadly single "shot" in the history of war.
This is different from what most sources say. Generally it's thought that about 150 soldiers were killed in the blast. Maybe your figure is including "mobilized" students, or some not-quite-soldier level people.
Nagasaki was the second choice target that day and even then the bomb was several kilometers away from the intended hypocenter.
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RE: How much do you know about the raid on Pearl Harbor?
December 14, 2018 at 9:20 pm
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Working without my notes, but I'm confident of the 5K number. "Most sources"?
BTW, the #1 hit show on the radio on this date was Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. A ventriloquist and his dummy. On the radio.
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RE: How much do you know about the raid on Pearl Harbor?
December 14, 2018 at 9:51 pm
(December 14, 2018 at 9:20 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Working without my notes, but I'm confident of the 5K number. "Most sources"?
BTW, the #1 hit show on the radio on this date was Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. A ventriloquist and his dummy. On the radio.
"Most sources" in this case would include the history books and the exhibits at the museum in Nagasaki. You could start with Wikipedia and follow their links.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bom...f_Nagasaki
If you were to count factory workers and mobilized students you could get 5000, but if you did the same methods of counting in Hiroshima it would exceed that number, making the first bomb a bigger "shot."
If you find your notes later and can point to some sources, I'd be interested to read them.
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RE: How much do you know about the raid on Pearl Harbor?
December 15, 2018 at 6:23 am
I may have confused Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it wasn't important enough for me to look it up.
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