CyValley2 said:

Tarawa - November 1943

D-Day - June 1944

Iwo Jima - February 1945

Okinawa - April 1945

IMHO, it's likely that many Americans today are not aware of the savagery and awful pain:

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inCyteful said:

TBH, for the SEC fans - this is already a win for them. They will have 8 months of chest thumping (well, 6 months, 8 weeks into next season the truth will be out that they are still meh) that they can buy anything they want.

It is almost more important to them than actually winning anything.

I am guessing this will get Pope another year or two if he can figure out how to get to Sweet 16 this year - which they might if they don't have to play ISU in round of 32.

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aauummm said:

I bought "Trinity The Best-Kept Secret" (Sept 2021 edition) and was very disappointed in it. I agree, something did happen there. Padilla says that his cousin built a dam on the site to create a pond for cattle watering.

However, it's an odd place for a pond since there is very little drainage area above it. There are better drainage areas downstream not that far away. The old road that went through the site was relocated and improved, yet it only goes to a ranch facility that isn't much, just some corrals. It only provides access to other areas out in desolate ranch areas. The relocation wasn't necessary.

There were many, many errors and discrepancies. The metal object "the treasure" turned out to be a part of an Aermotor windmill, part #A585, Windmill tailbone casting. See footnote #28 in the book. Reading the book did not give me a good impression of Paola Harris nor Jacques Vallee for being associated with the book.

Here is a video of Paola Harris' presentation at a 2013 MUFON Symposium. At the 48 minute mark begins a clip of a visit to the "crash site" with Jose Padilla. None of the presentation or clip is very impressive.

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Crash Story File: "Witness" credibility implodes for Jacques Vallee's Trinity UFO crash tale

By Douglas Dean Johnson @ddeanjohnson on X/Twitter January 25, 2024. Updated March 12, 2025. "Jose Padilla was an officer with the Highway Patrol in California for many years, and fought in Korea– had two bullets in his body. I mean, this is the best witness you could have, because

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CyValley2 said:

Kinch, hey. No doubt like you, I've been reading WWII histories for decades, particularly about the PTO. If there's an argument to be made between Fletcher and Spruance, let's do it another day. These two men were outstanding American warriors, today we celebrate them and all those who fought with them.

Here's another Iowan I'll bet you agree, Kinch, that few people likely are aware of, Hampton's Admiral William D. Leahy, the nation's senior ranking military officer in WWII. He was FDR's milirary Chief of Staff (forerunner of chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, it appears.) America's first five-star flag officer.

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As part of the run-up to D-Day, he traveled home to Hampton as part of the plan to deceive Germans of D-Day's timing; if he was taking time to travel to Iowa, maybe the invasion wasn't yet on.

Should friends here wish to know more about Leahy, Wiki:

William D. Leahy - Wikipedia

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You know, with Sioux City's Harry Hopkins, a chief FDR aide, living in the White House for part of WWII, some influential Iowan's at the highest levels of American government during the war.

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