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BONUS.....LOOK AT ALL THE PRETTY SOLDIERS
Date: 1942-08-11
Date: 1942-05-13
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Thursday TOONs (Original Post)
KS Toronado
Jun 2024
OP
Yikes! Spectacular cartoons! I want to recommend every single one of them!!!
Rhiannon12866
Jun 2024
#3
Thanks. And yet, I am looking at the images of Whiny from 2019 and am thinking how we did not
question everything
Jun 2024
#7
We must never forget those other bloody D-Days in the Pacific like Iwo Jima and Okinawa:
Wonder Why
Jun 2024
#9
Hekate
(94,626 posts)1. This is a wonderful album of D-Day memorial toons. Thank you. 💕
brer cat
(26,258 posts)2. Outstanding collection! Thank you, KS.
Rhiannon12866
(222,072 posts)3. Yikes! Spectacular cartoons! I want to recommend every single one of them!!!
LetMyPeopleVote
(154,427 posts)4. Thank you these great cartoons
We must never forget
ShazzieB
(18,641 posts)5. Great D-Day collection!
I actually got a little choked up. 80 years! I am going to keep the heros of WWII in mind when I cast my vote this fall. We must NOT let them down. After they gave so much to preserve democracy, it would be a travesty to let a certain Orange Hellbeast destroy it!
murielm99
(31,433 posts)6. Thank you.
question everything
(48,797 posts)7. Thanks. And yet, I am looking at the images of Whiny from 2019 and am thinking how we did not
realize the nightmare that was yet to come.
Abigail_Adams
(333 posts)8. Thank you so much! Here's to the Heroes!
Wonder Why
(4,589 posts)9. We must never forget those other bloody D-Days in the Pacific like Iwo Jima and Okinawa:
From Wikipedia:
Though ultimately victorious, the American victory at Iwo Jima had been extremely costly. According to the Navy Department Library, "the 36-day assault resulted in more than 26,000 American casualties, including 6,800 dead." By comparison, the much larger scale 82-day Battle of Okinawa lasting from early April until mid-June 1945 (involving five U.S. Army and two Marine Corps divisions) resulted in over 62,000 U.S. casualties, of whom over 12,000 were killed or missing. Iwo Jima was also the only U.S. Marine battle where the American casualties exceeded the Japanese
The USS Bismarck Sea was lost, the last U.S. aircraft carrier sunk in World War II. 20 Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighters and 11 Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers went down with Bismarck Sea. Also, the USS Saratoga was so severely damaged that she no longer took part in either combat or transportation duties for the rest of the war. She became a training ship. 31 Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters and 9 Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers were destroyed by the kamikaze attack on Saratoga. Because all civilians had been evacuated, there were no civilian casualties at Iwo Jima, unlike at Saipan and Okinawa.
The USS Bismarck Sea was lost, the last U.S. aircraft carrier sunk in World War II. 20 Grumman FM-2 Wildcat fighters and 11 Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers went down with Bismarck Sea. Also, the USS Saratoga was so severely damaged that she no longer took part in either combat or transportation duties for the rest of the war. She became a training ship. 31 Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters and 9 Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bombers were destroyed by the kamikaze attack on Saratoga. Because all civilians had been evacuated, there were no civilian casualties at Iwo Jima, unlike at Saipan and Okinawa.
And the Battle of Leyte Gulf, which had more Americans killed on the first day than Normandy did: 2800 vs 2500
Wounded Bear
(60,681 posts)10. K&R...nt
70sEraVet
(4,143 posts)11. Great collection of cartoonists' trubutes to D-Day!
I really enjoyed the Peanuts toons!
KS Toronado
(19,565 posts)13. Poor ole Snoopy got demoted from Flying Ace to Infantry.
Maybe he wore his plane out.
Hekate
(94,626 posts)12. TY also for the add-ons today
GeoWilliam750
(2,540 posts)14. Thank you, Good Sir