He stayed in Japan and became a houseboy at 13 for the US soldiers stationed there during the US Occupation. When he was old enough, he enlisted in the Army and he began getting a carton of Lucky Strikes every week as part of his GI rations. That was his ticket to lung cancer, I’...
In Syria, American army bases in Tanf region, Malikiyeh near the Iraqi border, Shadadi region of Haskeh [Euphrates Eye Network reported American air strikes on January 24, 2024, in the Kaitab Hezbollah/Iman Ali base area, down to Al-Qaim. ] Euphrates Eye Network Aerial bombardment targets...
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military bases presence in Okinawa, Japan in the aftermath of Second World War. Okinawa came under American military occupation as the result of a land battle that began at the end of March 1945, and lasted for more than three months. Having pushed the Japanese army back to the southern ...
member of the Communist Party. He married Elaine Black, a marriage that lasted over fifty years. He became a longshoreman. During World II he was sent to Manzanar concentration camp although an opponent of Japanese involvement in the war. He later served in Burma with U.S. Army Intelligence...
as well as its bases in Japan, South Korea, and on various Pacific islands. Similarly, the principal job of the U.S. military would be todegrade Chinese air and naval forces, as well as its missile-launching facilities on the mainland. The result could be instant escalation, including rele...
bases there. The al-Quds along with Shia Hezbullah militias from Lebanon are allies of the Shia Muslim dominated Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad. They have been fighting alongside the Syrian Arab Army for seven bloody years. Their opponents are rebels, backed, financed, and armed by the...
Japan had no plans for invading the United States mainland. The European/North African Theater In 1935, Hitler established military conscription for all German men, created an air force, and began to build submarines. The Treaty of Versailles limited Germany to a 100,000-man army, but Hitler`...
But American military planners did not agree about the best way to launch such an attack. Admiral Nimitz of the Navy wanted to capture the small groups of Japanese-held islands in the Pacific, then seize Taiwan, and finally attack Japan itself. But General Douglas MacArthur of the Army though...
All Army divisions should be reduced tocadres(smaller units capable of expansion in times of war), except the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions and the 10th Mountain Division. The Navy should largely be redeployed to our hemisphere, while aircraft carriers and related major surface ships are sig...