It's debatable how much the West Coast would have been in range for Japan post a major defeat at Midway. I think Hawaii would have been in play certainly and Japan's defensive perimeter would have been much harder to penetrate. But keep in mind the sheer logistics of invading the West Coast of the US? Japan was still bogged down in China and I don't think they had the industrial capacity to consider an invasion of CA, WA or OR. Our land based air craft would have been a significant threat to any invasion fleet nearing the West Coast and we would have shifter resources away from the European theater in the even of threat of imminent invasion.
Makes a good case for the "Marianas Turkey Shoot" option in this pole. My favorite military historian, Max Hastings, makes the case that two factors that most sealed Japan's fate, were that the US submarine fleet had by 1944 sunk most of Japan's merchant shipping fleet which destroyed their wartime industrial capability and the taking of the Marianas Islands which put Japan in range of the B-29s. Everything that came thereafter- e.g., Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa - were a waste of lives and didn't do much to hasten Japan's surrender.
Marianne's Ice Cream near Seacliff Beach. Venus down by Rio Del Mar Beach, but that's a bar. Capitola Village is fun to walk through. Further away towards Monterey Elkhorn Slough has good kayaking, and there's the Boardwalk on the Westside and the giant redwoods of Cowell State Park up in the mountains by Roaring Camp.
Let me know when you're coming through and we can grab a beer or something. I'm in Slovenia 7/31-8/11 tho, and might be in Yosemite sometime in mid-July.
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It's debatable how much the West Coast would have been in range for Japan post a major defeat at Midway. I think Hawaii would have been in play certainly and Japan's defensive perimeter would have been much harder to penetrate. But keep in mind the sheer logistics of invading the West Coast of the US? Japan was still bogged down in China and I don't think they had the industrial capacity to consider an invasion of CA, WA or OR. Our land based air craft would have been a significant threat to any invasion fleet nearing the West Coast and we would have shifter resources away from the European theater in the even of threat of imminent invasion.
Makes a good case for the "Marianas Turkey Shoot" option in this pole. My favorite military historian, Max Hastings, makes the case that two factors that most sealed Japan's fate, were that the US submarine fleet had by 1944 sunk most of Japan's merchant shipping fleet which destroyed their wartime industrial capability and the taking of the Marianas Islands which put Japan in range of the B-29s. Everything that came thereafter- e.g., Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa - were a waste of lives and didn't do much to hasten Japan's surrender.
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I’m bringing the Fam through Aptos this summer. Need all the kid friendly recommendations.
Marianne's Ice Cream near Seacliff Beach. Venus down by Rio Del Mar Beach, but that's a bar. Capitola Village is fun to walk through. Further away towards Monterey Elkhorn Slough has good kayaking, and there's the Boardwalk on the Westside and the giant redwoods of Cowell State Park up in the mountains by Roaring Camp.
Let me know when you're coming through and we can grab a beer or something. I'm in Slovenia 7/31-8/11 tho, and might be in Yosemite sometime in mid-July.
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I want my dimes back
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I blew it all on a hooker. (You should have seen the look on her face as I paid her in dimes!).
She probably felt pretty silly after she greeted you by saying “is that a roll of dimes in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?”
Come on @JoeEDangerously — this was funny!
missed it somehow
Meg Ryan was incredible