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Only 24k Marines died in WW2

Crazy. Pacific Theatre was really nbd in the grand scheme of...
Hairless razzmatazz keepsake machete university
  07/21/18
3k marines dead on Okinawa along with another 10k army and n...
Olive stead sweet tailpipe
  07/24/18
tbf that's more than died in the entire 15-year Iraq War
Lavender dilemma jewess
  07/21/18
wow seems low when you read about Iwo Jima, but I guess only...
Green pit fortuitous meteor
  07/21/18
Every death is not a tragedy. Every death is a statistic. Re...
Cyan wrinkle
  07/21/18
Can a nyuug hater explain how nyuug’s schtick is worse than ...
Mind-boggling hall coldplay fan
  07/21/18
i guess this view helps explain why russia is russia and ame...
fiercely-loyal galvanic spot marketing idea
  07/21/18
The Nipps never even built one proper tank in the entire war...
Cyan wrinkle
  07/21/18
they had insane morale and tactics
Lavender dilemma jewess
  07/21/18
Jesus Christ, 2 million Japanese combatants were killed? By ...
Hairless razzmatazz keepsake machete university
  07/21/18
1.2 million Afghans dead for 14,453 Soviet. That was the mos...
Cyan wrinkle
  07/21/18
Those places suck though imo
Hairless razzmatazz keepsake machete university
  07/21/18
"That was the most one sided kill ratio in history unti...
Flushed Wonderful Church Building Prole
  07/21/18
No, I excluded the SAA/SDF kills. Over 600,000 have died in ...
Cyan wrinkle
  07/21/18
only? only 3000 troops died during the vaunted D day, an...
Mint gaming laptop queen of the night
  07/21/18
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cerebral pearl meetinghouse
  07/21/18
apparently we killed like 80x as many Japanese soldiers.
Hairless razzmatazz keepsake machete university
  07/21/18
total, yes. but in the island battles where the Marines were...
Mint gaming laptop queen of the night
  07/21/18
It's so hard to get a concise history of WW2 when everything...
Hairless razzmatazz keepsake machete university
  07/21/18
god damn flyboys nuking and firebombing skew the numbers
Mint gaming laptop queen of the night
  07/21/18
24K fewer dudes to raise non-shithead Boomers
primrose theatre
  07/21/18
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Chocolate razzle institution
  07/21/18
No such thing. If anything, these guys dying prevented ther...
histrionic box office
  07/23/18
US just bypassed the most fortified islands and let the japa...
Bright odious giraffe
  07/21/18
*leans into mic*
Mint gaming laptop queen of the night
  07/21/18
this is exactly what they did
Bright odious giraffe
  07/21/18
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cartwheel "I...
Bright odious giraffe
  07/21/18
“Rear Admiral Keiji Shibazaki, an experienced combat officer...
Mint gaming laptop queen of the night
  07/21/18
180 strategy
Green pit fortuitous meteor
  07/21/18
...
Olive stead sweet tailpipe
  07/24/18
I hate that shitlib, but hes right here.
spruce stag film
  07/23/18
was Tarawa not the most fortified island of them all?
Mint gaming laptop queen of the night
  07/24/18
No IWO
Olive stead sweet tailpipe
  07/24/18
ok so those are the top two, let's say how does that line...
Mint gaming laptop queen of the night
  07/24/18
most-fortified ones we fought over is the key distinction. ...
Olive stead sweet tailpipe
  07/24/18
...
Hairless razzmatazz keepsake machete university
  07/23/18
marines barely existed in ww2
Soul-stirring cream mexican
  07/23/18


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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:11 PM
Author: Hairless razzmatazz keepsake machete university

Crazy. Pacific Theatre was really nbd in the grand scheme of things. But where would GUAM and the Philippines be without the sacrifice of these Marines?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36470968)



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Date: July 24th, 2018 4:36 AM
Author: Olive stead sweet tailpipe

3k marines dead on Okinawa along with another 10k army and navy (5 each) vs 100k dead japs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36485811)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:13 PM
Author: Lavender dilemma jewess

tbf that's more than died in the entire 15-year Iraq War

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36470975)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:14 PM
Author: Green pit fortuitous meteor

wow seems low when you read about Iwo Jima, but I guess only five thousand Americans died there, and considering it was one of the biggest islands they took, makes sense.

Every death is still a tragedy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36470978)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:16 PM
Author: Cyan wrinkle

Every death is not a tragedy. Every death is a statistic. Read your Stalin, bro.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36470991)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:18 PM
Author: Mind-boggling hall coldplay fan

Can a nyuug hater explain how nyuug’s schtick is worse than ARE Reptile’s?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471003)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:32 PM
Author: fiercely-loyal galvanic spot marketing idea

i guess this view helps explain why russia is russia and america is america

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471035)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:15 PM
Author: Cyan wrinkle

The Nipps never even built one proper tank in the entire war and by the end of their war they couldnt even build a reliable bolt action rifle. You were fighting a bunch of unarmed savages. Japanese combat power in WW2 was on par with that of fascist Romania though that's really insulting Romania as in a standup fight the Nipps would have lost to Romania. To the extent the Nipps were even a naval threat it was only because the retarded British built them 6 naval yards.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36470981)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:16 PM
Author: Lavender dilemma jewess

they had insane morale and tactics

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36470994)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:28 PM
Author: Hairless razzmatazz keepsake machete university

Jesus Christ, 2 million Japanese combatants were killed? By who? This is an insane K:D ratio. There is no way they wouldn't have negotiated a surrender.

Also it pisses me off how atom bomb apologists think that the only other alternative was a land invasion. The Navy could've just left and Japan could've kept the useless Philippines, it wouldn't matter to anyone.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471024)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:34 PM
Author: Cyan wrinkle

1.2 million Afghans dead for 14,453 Soviet. That was the most one sided kill ratio in history until the Russians did Syria where the kill ratio is 160,000 to 93. The Russkies are killing about 2,000 Syrians for every soldier they lose.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471040)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:36 PM
Author: Hairless razzmatazz keepsake machete university

Those places suck though imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471044)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:41 PM
Author: Flushed Wonderful Church Building Prole

"That was the most one sided kill ratio in history until the Russians did Syria where the kill ratio is 160,000 to 93. "

This is retarded because it assumes it's the Russians vs everyone else in Syria. Most of those 160k have been killed by SDF or SAA

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471060)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:43 PM
Author: Cyan wrinkle

No, I excluded the SAA/SDF kills. Over 600,000 have died in Syria. About 160,000 to Russian air power.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471066)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:38 PM
Author: Mint gaming laptop queen of the night

only?

only 3000 troops died during the vaunted D day, and the Marines has multiple battles with much higher casualty rates

also we killed like 10x as many japs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471049)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:43 PM
Author: cerebral pearl meetinghouse



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471064)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:43 PM
Author: Hairless razzmatazz keepsake machete university

apparently we killed like 80x as many Japanese soldiers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471065)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:46 PM
Author: Mint gaming laptop queen of the night

total, yes. but in the island battles where the Marines were involved it was more like 10x

Iwo was only 5x but those fuckers were dug in good

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471077)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:49 PM
Author: Hairless razzmatazz keepsake machete university

It's so hard to get a concise history of WW2 when everything you ever see just omits these kinds of details. And that's just the Pacific war; not even touching the European war.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471084)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:50 PM
Author: Mint gaming laptop queen of the night

god damn flyboys nuking and firebombing skew the numbers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471089)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:39 PM
Author: primrose theatre

24K fewer dudes to raise non-shithead Boomers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471052)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:01 PM
Author: Chocolate razzle institution



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471118)



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Date: July 23rd, 2018 7:50 PM
Author: histrionic box office

No such thing. If anything, these guys dying prevented there being even more boomers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36483851)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:41 PM
Author: Bright odious giraffe

US just bypassed the most fortified islands and let the japanese on them starve to death

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471056)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:43 PM
Author: Mint gaming laptop queen of the night

*leans into mic*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471063)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:00 PM
Author: Bright odious giraffe

this is exactly what they did

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471113)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:03 PM
Author: Bright odious giraffe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cartwheel

"In the midst of Operation Cartwheel, the Joint Chiefs met with President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the Quadrant Conference in Quebec City in August 1943. There, the decision was made to bypass and isolate Rabaul, rather than attempting to capture the base, and to attack Kavieng instead. Soon afterward, the decision was made to bypass Kavieng as well. Although initially objected to by MacArthur, the bypassing of Rabaul, instead of its neutralisation, meant that his Elkton plan had been achieved, and after invading Saidor, he then moved into his Reno Plan, an advance across the north coast of New Guinea to Mindanao.

The campaign, which stretched into 1944, showed the effectiveness of a strategy of avoiding major concentrations of enemy forces and instead aiming to sever the Japanese lines of supply and communication."

"As American submarines disrupted supply lines, Japanese soldiers on the Pacific islands were particularly badly affected, with 15,000 starving to death on Guadalcanal alone. The survivors who surrendered were emaciated, suffering from scurvy, “thin as thread,” as their commander noted. Ninety percent of the 158,000 Japanese troops in New Guinea died of starvation and tropical diseases, and there were widespread reports that they were killing and eating some of the prisoners they took. In the Philippines 400,000 out of nearly half a million Japanese troops starved to death."

https://www.thenation.com/article/food-fights/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471124)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:10 PM
Author: Mint gaming laptop queen of the night

“Rear Admiral Keiji Shibazaki, an experienced combat officer from the campaigns in China, relieved Tomonari on July 20, 1943, in anticipation of the coming fight. Shibazaki continued the defensive preparations right up to the day of the invasion. He encouraged his troops, saying "it would take one million men one hundred years" to conquer Tarawa.”

The Marines did it in three days

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tarawa

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471138)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:14 PM
Author: Green pit fortuitous meteor

180 strategy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36471144)



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Date: July 24th, 2018 4:30 AM
Author: Olive stead sweet tailpipe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36485806)



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Date: July 23rd, 2018 8:23 PM
Author: spruce stag film

I hate that shitlib, but hes right here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36484063)



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Date: July 24th, 2018 4:27 AM
Author: Mint gaming laptop queen of the night

was Tarawa not the most fortified island of them all?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36485803)



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Date: July 24th, 2018 4:31 AM
Author: Olive stead sweet tailpipe

No IWO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36485807)



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Date: July 24th, 2018 4:36 AM
Author: Mint gaming laptop queen of the night

ok so those are the top two, let's say

how does that line up with the comment above about bypassing the most built up ones? we bypassed ones not deemed necessary for immediate use, but hell even then Iwo turned out to be basically fucking useless

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36485810)



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Date: July 24th, 2018 5:16 AM
Author: Olive stead sweet tailpipe

most-fortified ones we fought over is the key distinction.

Big fortresses like Rabul and Truk were bypassed and only islands necessary as steppingstones for the twin goals of a) Philippines, and B) Japanese homeland were taken. Iwo was necessary as a stopping point between the Marshalls and the Ryukus (where we would launch invasion of home islands from)

Tarawa, while nasty, wasn't a built-up cave fortress system like Iwo, constructed over years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36485841)



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Date: July 23rd, 2018 7:17 PM
Author: Hairless razzmatazz keepsake machete university



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36483680)



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Date: July 23rd, 2018 7:52 PM
Author: Soul-stirring cream mexican

marines barely existed in ww2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031684&forum_id=2#36483868)