From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 14:37:38 -0400, Rich Gauszka  wrote:

>
> "Phil Payne" 
wrote in message
> news:44340122$2{at}w3....
>>> Our experience of the desperation of Japanese defense on outlying
>>> islands
>>> was more than instructive.
>>
>> Shades of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.  What would they have done -
>> bitten your legs off?
>>
>>
>
>
> You mean like Okinawa?
>
> http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1671.html
> Although the first three phases encountered only mild opposition, the
> final
> phase proved extremely difficult because the Japanese were deep
> underground
> and naval gunfire support was ineffective.
>
> The battle of Okinawa proved to be the bloodiest battle of the Pacific
> War.
> Thirty-four allied ships and other craft of all types were sunk, mostly
> by
> Kamikazes, and 368 ships and craft were damaged. The fleet lost 763
> aircraft. The total American casualties in the operation numbered more
> than
> 12,000 killed (including nearly 5,000 navy and almost 8,000 marine and
> army)
> and 36,000 wounded.
>
>

Don't bother Phil with history as we made it all up.

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Gary Wiltshire

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