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 California

 

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737th Amphibian
Tractor Battalion


Olympic Training Course

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this is (was) the entrance

 

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abandoned
the Fort is closed


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NOT MUCH ARMOR OR FIREPOWER
FOR A LANDING ON JAPAN

(the Army called this buggy a landing vehicle tracked)

 

President Harry Truman -- a World War I veteran
fully understood the enormity of the Japanese invasion
he saved our country from its worst blood bath since the Civil War

Operation Olympic casualties were estimated at
94,000 killed and 234,000 wounded
(57% of the ground forces involved)

Army Quartermaster ordered 370,000 Purple Heart Medals and
an undetermined number of mattress covers (fart sacks) for burial
there is no time and materials available to make coffins during a war

those who decry the use of the A-bomb were not alive when it
happened and are not aware of the fanatic resistance we faced

at Fort Ord I had 15 vehicles and two platoon sergeants in my tractor platoon
in Europe I had 5 vehicles and one platoon sergeant in my tank platoon

I asked why the triple strength?
some yardbird replied

"only one-third of youse guys are going to make it ashore"
I called that yankee a dirty bastard!

a lot of good men would have been crossed off
without the courageous action by President Harry Truman
that eliminated

"X-day" Operation Olympic Invasion of Kyushu  1 Nov 45
"Y-day" Operation Coronet Invasion of Honshu 1 Mar 46

Our boss (George Patton) said "we want ... to get at those purple-pissing Japs."

 

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purple pisser
  

purple pisser 1st class

 



the Japs got smart ass during the rape of Nanking
they killed 300,000 civilians and raped 20,000 women
but we kicked their butts all over the Pacific

 

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the Japs killed children
  

and mutilated women

 

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many innocent people lost their heads to Japanese swords

 

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we paid them in spades but not enough


this table provides a proper perspective

City

Killed

Hiroshima

140,000

Nagasaki

 74,000

Total

214,000

Nanking

300,000

 

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our prisoners suffered terribly during the Bataan Death March

 

these figures are unforgivable

Country POW Deaths
Japan 40 percent
Germany & Italy 1.2 percent

 

modern historians drive Japanese automobiles
and tell our baby boomers it wasn't necessary
to drop the bombs to win the war