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A New Geography | LST 400

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B0145 (A NEW GEOGRAPHY). December 7, 2012. The name Pearl Harbor is now firmly fixed in history. It wasn’t always. We all knew Honolulu as a deepwater Hawaiian port but we didn’t know that its anchorage had a name of its own. The announcement that Pearl Harbor had been attacked sent many of us looking for an atlas. As usual Americans could find a laugh in the grimmest disaster. Pearl Harbor has been attacked! 8212; Why you telling me; I don’t even know the girl. Like to hear more about the 1940s?

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Spectator | LST 400

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January 25, 2013. On Sept 15, 1943, LST 400 gave a classic performance. No LCT light. Ers, no pontoons. We dropped our ramp on the dry sand and sent our. Sherman tanks in an ‘in your teeth’ assault on German gun positions. They were ready for us. Like to hear more about the 1940s? Click on www.flat-bottomodyssey.com. Want regular postings on 1940s happenings? Click on www.lst400.com/subscription. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *.

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B0146 (TEUTONIC TOUR II) | LST 400

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B0146 (TEUTONIC TOUR II). December 14, 2012. Young Sergeant Ralph Burnett’s tour of Europe began August 16 of. 1944 when his B-17 (Flying Fortress) took off from its base in southern. England. The plan called for a two hour flight to a German city, drop. Ping a bomb load and returning to base. It didn’t work out that way. Ralph had just started on a journey that would last into early 1945. In. Earlier postings, Ralph tells of his parachute escape from a damaged. Like to hear more about the 1940s? Sign up...

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D-Day | LST 400

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November 23, 2012. WWII military planners used the word D-Day to indicate the first. Day of a seaborne invasion. The second day was called D 1, the. Third D 2, etc. This system freed them from the strictures of a. Calendar date. Every invasion had its D-Day but we now use the. Word to identify only June 6, 1944, the date of the Normandy. Invasion. We also think of that invasion as having occurred on a. Small stretch of OMAHA BEACH lying at the foot of Pointe du Hoc. Stretch of fifty miles. Theme: Skirmis...

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Gunnery Practice | LST 400

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January 11, 2013. On Sept 10, 1943, under strong German resistance, we debarked. Twenty tanks on the sandy beach at Salerno, Italy. A smooth operation. Not a scratch. We picked up 32 survivors from the sunken USS. Nausett, hauled ass for Bizerte, where we picked up a load of Sherman. Tanks and were back on the beach on September 15th. Normally we. Expected the follow-up landing to be a piece of cake. Not this one. Like to hear more about the 1940s? Click on www.flat-bottomodyssey.com. Seven.

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Officer's Training | LST 400

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B0148 (OFFICER’S TRAINING). December 28, 2012. On Dec 8, 1941 Germany joined Japan’s attack on the U.S. This military. Combination (the Axis) greatly outnumbered the U.S. peacetime forces. The challenge was met with an overnight conversion of 13,000,000. Young students, factory workers and farmers into the most powerful. Military machine the world has seen. Some of them received extensive. Training (air force). Others got adequate schooling for technical jobs. The moaning of the teachers, lawyers and acc...

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Lethal Target | LST 400

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December 21, 2012. In a previous posting (B0142) Signalman Floyd Beaver told us of two. New Zealand minesweepers engaging and sinking a large Japanese. I-1 submarine. Floyd added that the sinking, a notable move in itself,. Had far-reaching consequences later in the WWII battles in the South. Pacific. Floyd left off with the sub ….running up on an inshore reef. And sinking with only a few feet of her bow protruding from the. Sunk as she was in shallow water, the I-1 was vulnerable to American intelligenc...

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Sankt Wendel | LST 400

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January 18, 2013. In an earlier posting Sgt. Ralph Burnett told of his escape from a. Damaged B-17 over western Germany in August of 1944. He told of. Harassment by civilians and of random truck and rail rides. By the end. Of the month he was imprisoned near Sankt (Saint) Wendel. Then–. Like to hear more about the 1940s? Click on www.flat-bottomodyssey.com. Want regular postings on 1940s happenings? Click on www.lst400.com/subscription. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published.

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Kilroy | LST 400

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November 30, 2012. The people of the 1940s knew. Kilroy was every. Where And they knew it because no matter where they went they saw. KILROY WAS HERE written on the wall along with a drawing of a little. Bald man peering over a wall, thus: m (* ) m . Even the high. And mighty were upstaged by Kilroy. Here Patrick Tillery tells us of. Three heads of state gathered at Potsdam shortly after the finish of. Pat Tillery can tell you more about the Kilroy legend. Click on. Like to hear more about the 1940s?

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Manned and Ready | LST 400

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B0149 (MANNED AND READY). January 4, 2013. After the Navy and I became acquainted at Princeton U, I was told to. Report to the CO of the Norfolk Navy Base for further assignment. I. Had only a vague idea of what the ‘further assignment’ would be so I. Hurried home, loafed around for a week, made my farewells and then. Headed out for God knows where. Like to hear more about the 1940s? Click on www.flat-bottomodyssey.com. Want regular postings on 1940s happenings? B0148 (OFFICER’S TRAINING).