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Last Days Of World War Two

Anyone watching this unnerving and well-narrarated series? It gives a world-wide view of the major conflicts on the dates in this time-block in history 60 years ago. These were some pretty terrible events - the Russians lost a couple hundred thousand men taking Berlin, and the United States Navy lost over 30 capital ships, and 360 were damaged, in the battle for Okinawa, mostly as a result of Kamikaze attacks.

To put that in perspective, 5,000 men is almost twice what we lost on 9/11 and more than twice what we lost at Pearl Harbor, when we weren't prepared for battle!  Can you imagine such a sacrifice today?

posted by: underwhelmed at March 25, 2005 21:43 | link | comments |

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