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echo: barktopus
to: Dave
from: Jeff Shultz
date: 2004-12-13 22:32:26
subject: Re: Still a prick

From: Jeff Shultz 

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 12:38:43 -0600, Dave wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 21:01:46 -0500, "Geo"
 wrote in
> message :
>
> | How did we tool up before war after pearl harbor?
>
> Did we send troops to war the next day?
>
> Who was Rosie the Riveter?

Pretty close. The Doolittle Raid was only a few months later, and we were
in action against submarines out of Iceland very quickly. At least one
carrier battlegroup, around the Lexington and (I think) the Yorktown, was
conducting offensive operations against Japanese held islands pretty
quickly.

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