Im thinking more on this and thank God for America . and their brave young men who fought the Japanese out on the waters of the Philippines etc as well as everywhere else.These boys were 18 to 20 something and gave it their all. All for our freedom at their loss.
The ones out in the Pacific were the bravest of the brave and they saw in front of them a fleet of ships that outnumbered them near on three to one something like 27 ships verses 7 ships and the sizes were against them also with leading the Japanese craft at three times the literal size of their little destroyers. They were caught off guard by a great Japanese ruse and most of the American fleet had sailed out after a fleet of Japanese vessels and left the port to a skeleton crew of small craft to guard it. Then the 2nd Japanese fleet sailed in from a different route from behind islands through narrow straights etc. These brave men in seven or so small destroyers had weapons that were three times less the gauge of the Japanese craft they were facing and the Japanese were firing at them for about 6 miniutes without return fire before they could get into range. They knew but still went for it. The Japanese made a mistake and had shells that were amour piercing and not exploding on impact so they rained on and around the Americans as they came into range punching holes clean through our vessels but the Americans kept going and got into range and shot torpedoes at the formation even after seeing their own lead destroyer take massive hits and loose all the towers off its decks etc the rest went for it too and got into range and fired torpedoes into the lead vessels. They saved the port saved a massive loss and prevented them getting to fuel and oil etc.
This sort of bravery happened in every theater all over the globe God bless them all,cause if it wasnt for them, we would all be slaves in a terrible world for us but a better one for Germany and her allies.
So what ever you think if you live free from oppression.. God bless the Americans that helped you maintain it and continue to do so.
We wouldnt have won without them.
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