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Bonobo

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3. A courageous attack on a military base...

Reply to ashling (Original post)

Wed Oct 10, 2012, 10:11 AM

Oct 2012

Soon afterwards, the idea of only striking military targets would become a thing of the romantic past.

Surprising still to me that it is spoken of as such a shameful act considering that the Japanese only after military targets.

Surely not as inhuman of an act as the firebombing of Tokyo or the dropping of two nuclear devices on civilian populations.

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Pearl Harbor attack pics [View all] ashling Apr 2012 OP

And yet the attack was a falure. oneshooter Sep 2012 #1

The pic of the women putting out a fire at Pearl isn't from Dec '41. It's from a drill later in WW2. Bucky Sep 2012 #2

A courageous attack on a military base... Bonobo Oct 2012 #3