Re: Modern Gunships


"Arved Sandstrom" <asandstrom@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Kevin Brooks" <brooksvmi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> [ SNIP ]
>> Should we also remember which service debauched from the PI (except for
>
> ^^^^^^^^^
>
> "debauched"? Freudian slip on your part? Although it may have been a
> pleasing thought. :-)
>
> Incidentally, a narrow military terminology nitpick...the word you meant
> doesn't correspond to retreat.

Actually, the intransitive verb form means to "indulge in dissipation". The
USN, for understandable reasons, certainly did "dissipate" during the PI
Campaign in 41/42.

Brooks

>
>> those poor sialors left behind to fight as more poor bloody infantry...)
>> while the troops were fighting? That is sort of a low blow, but anybody
>> trying to claim that the USN was "more forward deployed" than the other
>> services during WWII needs to have their head examined.
>
> AHS
>
>


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