EARLY: The Aleutians Islands Campaign
One of the dumbest campaigns from WWII happened in the US and was way dumber than you probably remember from history class.
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Muskeg comes from an indigenous word meaning "floating land". It's mostly reeds/grasses/moss and it can look like a normal meadow until you step on it. Sometimes it will take your weight, sometimes your foot punches straight through and you're trapped in the plant matt! Rough going to traverse, for sure
Aww, thanks for the shout out to Russia, but of course they did the normal awful things like sell guns to one side and then the other and try to enserf people. Pretty much the "dispossionist" party of the church (monks who didn't believe the church should own serfs) vs. the Royal Alaskan companies. The monks actually held their own for once. This was after killing all the sea cows and during the sea otter rush. No telling what would have happened if Russians had stumbled on Klondike after the otters got scarce and before selling to America. Shout out to "Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America" by David Silverman
The conspiracy theory I believe: There was a massive conspiracy of the mob, CIA, GOP, Cuban exiles, etc. to off JFK, they had a plan, then before they could some random yokel named Oswald beat them to it. And they just shrugged and moved on.
Not a big fan of most conspiracy theories, but I think the one where a secret service agent got spooked by Oswald's first shot and accidentally domed JFK sounds at least kind of plausible.
Have you read shattered sword? They talk at length about the start of this and about how it interracted with the battle of midway. The 3 distributions that were planned was crazy - they were planning on stationing a CV (zuikaku), two CVLs and about 30 other ships up there when it was all said and done.
Damn, I knew the Aleutians Campaign was bad, but not this BAD.
What I got from the insult exchange is that COD lobbies are closer to real war than anyone would ever suspect.
My maternal grandfather was stationed in Alaska during ww2 and said that they were told a bunch of times they were the line of defense preventing invasion of the lower 48. He said the fear of japans invasion abilities was pretty large in 1941-42
Did you hear someone say "banzai?" Dude I'm not playing
If the American forces had only had someone with the testicular fortitude to say "Commando!" there would have been no problem taking those glorified ocean rocks.
This is gonna be great.
Finally, I was wondering when this insanity would pop up.
Awesome. As someone that spent time in the Coast Guard in the Aleutian Islands I have know this and often wonder why the craziness of this was not talked about