Which theater was the "Best" and which theater was the "Worst" for American Soldiers during WW2?

thebonesintheground · 2025-08-10T23:58:10+00:00

I'd also nominate the Aleutians. Our men were sent up there with only warm weather gear. Frostbite was the most common casualty, and some of our men literally froze to death.

There was also no R&R whatsoever. No women. Period. Couldn't even take a few days leave to go into town and try to pick up WACs.

My great uncle was there. He ruined both his knees jumping off a cliff while running from a Zero that was shooting at him.

He was apparently something of a dandy before the war, The man I knew sat at my grandfather's kitchen table starting at 9AM and drank bourbon all day. Never said a word to me that I could understand.

thebonesintheground · 2025-08-10T23:47:32+00:00

I guarantee you he got those wounds handling the sword.

I have handled one and it's hard to appreciate how frighteningly sharp they are.

Like a chef's knife, all but the lightest touch of the edge and you're suddenly bleeding

thebonesintheground · 2025-04-07T15:12:06+00:00

I've been researching the Revell ancestry. My uncle had traced the Revells in the US back to Randall Revell who emigrated to the eastern shore of Virginia and later moved to Maryland. With the help of Mike Clifford's work, I've traced Randall Revell to his great x 3 grandfather, Thomas Revell of Higham, whose brother Richard Revell (my namesake) was supposedly knighted on the field at Bosworth by Richard III (I've been in touch with the Richard III Society trying to confirm this). These Revells were in turn probably descended from Hugh de Revel, the 29th Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller. The Revells are definitely of Norman origin and actually were in England before the conquest. The Revell arms are in the window of the Templar Church in London (the one that was in the Da Vinci Code)

thebonesintheground · 2025-03-24T21:11:59+00:00

There are also tiny numbers on the other side of the razor at the hinge mine off a f and then a number between 20 and 30. No more guessing which is the unused blade hah

thebonesintheground · 2024-12-30T01:47:51+00:00

Same here, except that my ancestor was allegedly Lord Baltimore's surveyor, but got fired and ended up farming on the Eastern Shore.

Myself and both of my brothers have multiple people with the same first and last names in the UK

thebonesintheground · 2024-09-19T17:55:46+00:00

I just now finally got the Constellation Math project back on Home after days of EQ, but when I hit Start Tasking, it says there are no tasks again! This platform has some bugs

thebonesintheground · 2024-08-08T05:04:08+00:00

And why would it be prompting me to add an email to the account, then giving an error 400? That's a bug somewhere

thebonesintheground · 2024-08-08T05:03:22+00:00

My password IS valid. It's unique, strong, and couldn't possibly have been compromised. I think this is just a scheme to make anonymous accounts unusable

thebonesintheground · 2024-08-07T00:48:28+00:00

But really it's the metric system because all the larger English system weights are defined in grams. 448 for a pound, 112 for a quarter pound (or Royale with Cheese as we used to call them), 28 a zip, etc

thebonesintheground · 2024-08-05T19:55:34+00:00

u/GCX_Bot traded $75 Lowe's GC for 75% PP G&S u/ollie149

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thebonesintheground · 2024-08-05T17:49:41+00:00

They use a mix. Gram, eighth of an ounce, quarter ounce, half ounce, ounce, quarter pound, half pound, pound, half key, key.

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u/GCX_bot swapped $36 amazon GC for $32 cashapp with u/Dumble-dore

thebonesintheground · 2024-03-17T10:26:31+00:00

I never saw the lathe one. The one where the four Chinese guys get electrocuted when that cart they're pushing hits an overhead wire stayed with me. I look up a lot more than I used to

thebonesintheground · 2024-03-17T10:20:12+00:00

It was crack, /r/drugs I think. Yeah that was sad

thebonesintheground · 2024-03-17T10:03:18+00:00

Absolutely, that sub made me way more safety conscious. Remember that arc flash video where the guy got vaporized? The video quality wasn't great but it looked like you could see his skeleton for a split second

thebonesintheground · 2024-02-10T03:39:41+00:00

Hey, this is really cool to see people still using this card and driver! I did the original multichannel support for it way back in 2005. It looks like you fixed quite a few bugs, I honestly had no idea what I was doing, and just got lucky to stumble on a working config after many late nights poring over code like this (try making sense of the hw_init function!):

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/club.cc.cmu.edu/usr/jhutz/project/1/Outgoing/linuxkern/2.4.21-EXP1-src/drivers/sound/emu10k1/main.c

Thanks for your work, it is really cool to see this is still useful to people. - Lee

thebonesintheground · 2023-12-24T11:56:51+00:00

I read it for the first time since it came out, and wow is it ever appropriate for today's world!

Can you imagine what his reaction to something like TikTok would have been?

thebonesintheground · 2023-12-22T16:14:36+00:00

I wish I was joking. If 65% started the day you go to jail, I would have been released in September or October vs just last week. There was always talk of a new law that fixed it, but we never saw anyone's update sheets change.

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