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captain queeg

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2. In the video I thought I heard it said that the merchant marine suffered more casualties

Reply to Sherman A1 (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 29, 2020, 06:26 AM

Mar 2020

Than any other service. That didn’t really sound right, I might have heard it wrong. But a great many died in the Battle of the Atlantic, so maybe so. Thousands of ships were sunk and the odds for survival were very slim. It wasn't that many years ago that the US officially recognized them as military veterans. Pretty shitty that it took so long.

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Was just watching a video about Lend-Lease. [View all] captain queeg Mar 2020 OP

Just read an interesting piece on the era Sherman A1 Mar 2020 #1

In the video I thought I heard it said that the merchant marine suffered more casualties captain queeg Mar 2020 #2

The Merchant Marine had it tough and yes, it was far too long Sherman A1 Mar 2020 #3

The Battle of the Atlantic. 3Hotdogs Mar 2020 #5

did you happen to notice what segment of the country the crossovers represented? rurallib Mar 2020 #4

The only thing I noticed was they called the Republicans isolationists captain queeg Mar 2020 #6