Re: When was the second world war named?)

"Bill Shatzer" <bshatzerNO@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

Well, if the London Blitz and the invasion of Sicily are properly
considered 'fighting in Europe', Dutch Harbor/Unalaska and Attu would
qualify as 'fighting in North America' as those islands are considered
part of the North America land mass every bit as much as Sicily and
Britain are considered part of the European one.

Then there were the Japanese shellings of Fort Stevens, Oregon and Long
Beach, California and the Japanese submarine-launched bombing raids near
Brookings, Oregon which were clearly on the North American continent
itself - although the 'fighting' was on something of a minor level.

I didn't ignore these incidents; I disregarded them for the purposes of this
debate as "de minimis non curat lex": the law does not care about very small
matters. The London Blitz and the invasion of Sicily were quite different
matters to the attack on Dutch Harbor or the shelling of Fort Stevens...

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