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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,438 Founders Club
    edited December 2020
    CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:

    GrundleStiltzkin said:



    The only tim I really see commercials anymore is during football season. The one that makes me chortle right now has the line, “You know who reads submarine books?” “My dad.”

    Damn straight. This one isn’t some scholarly work but a compendium of first hand accounts of WW2 submariners. Two are about guysm who got left above decks when boat submerged. Best story was a crew that presumably hit a mine. 15 guys were thrown out of conning tower by explosion, 7 made it to an island.

    Currently reading PT 109 and previously read a book on the Indianapolis. Fuck being in the Navy and surging your ship getting sunk only to float around in shark chinfested seas wondering if you’re going to live.



    I'll never put on a life jacket again
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter


    This was good. Half narrative, half light-military science. What D Days in the Pacific should have been.
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter


    Outstanding book.
    https://www.navyhistory.org/2017/01/book-review-the-fleet-at-flood-tide-america-at-total-war-in-the-pacific-1944-1945/
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,843 Swaye's Wigwam
    damn war imagery on this thread is heavy.

    I like to read to forget about things that are in the daily news - love the historical war stories, etc. so here is one that explains the Dead, and how some dead heads also got to be the way they are


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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter

    Broke from my old man WWII books for something different. I don't understand much of this, which is why I reading listening to it I suppose. This dude really likes him some blockchain and starts coming across as magical thinking a touch.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,695 Founders Club
    LebamDawg said:

    damn war imagery on this thread is heavy.

    I like to read to forget about things that are in the daily news - love the historical war stories, etc. so here is one that explains the Dead, and how some dead heads also got to be the way they are


    I started reading this a few years back @LebamDawg . Got side tracked and need to re-visit.
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter


    My affinity for complex-things-explained-in-simple-manner books is well documented. This is one of the better ones, and higher level. It gets pretty sciency.
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  • alumni94
    alumni94 Member Posts: 4,878
    LebamDawg said:

    damn war imagery on this thread is heavy.

    I like to read to forget about things that are in the daily news - love the historical war stories, etc. so here is one that explains the Dead, and how some dead heads also got to be the way they are


    Good book.
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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter


    Good chit so far. Of the mythbuster, what-you-think-you-know is wrong genre, which I enjoy.
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