re: BOB The Pacific Masters of the Air

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But what situation would you rather be in?

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When I have trouble sleeping at night, I’ll listen to videos like WWII Diaries to keep my mind occupied and drift off to sleep. The episodes are usually about an hour long. Last night, I listened to one about night fighting in the Pacific island hopping campaign. The Japanese thought the Americans fought like office workers and were weak because they wouldn’t fight after dark.

Marines were talking about how small they’d dig their foxholes because that was less space to defend against someone sliding in with you at night. They wouldn’t pile up dirt around the foxhole because that was a dead giveaway a foxhole was there. They dug deeper holes in the corners of their foxholes so they could shove grenades in them before they went off. Your buddy might be 4 feet away in his hole but even a slight whisper was a death sentence so you wouldn’t see or speak to them until daylight. Japanese would crawl on their bellies inch by inch with a hand in front of them with a finger raised so they could detect tripwires in the dark. Each foxhole was like an island and each night was a life or death struggle.

I had to change to a different episode. Give me Europe.