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Admiral Nimitz: Mistake number one: the Japanese attacked on Sunday morning. Nine out of every ten crewmen of those ships were ashore on leave. If those same ships had been lured to sea and been sunk--we would have lost 38,000 men instead of 3,800." Is this a fair assessment ?	474
Ezra Pound argued Thomas Jefferson "governed for 24 yrs, and you might say for 48." T.J. 8 yrs. "...16 wherein he governed more or less through deputies Madison and Monroe." How accurate of a portrait is this? Also he compares T.J. to Mussolini, is this total absurdity from a fascist sympathizer ?	461
"Eight million horses and countless mules and donkeys died in the First World War. " "The WWII German Army was 80% Horse Drawn" Is this accurate? How did Germany recover it's horse pop. by the 1940? Did they rely on conquered nations stock?	442
9 March 1945: 334 B-29s dropping incendiaries (Operation Meetinghouse) killing some 100,000. Intentionally targeting civilians, why is this not considered a war crime and those responsible prosecuted?	297
Personal photographs from an Army photographer any insight would be of great interest graphic NSFW NSFW	253
The Soviets produced over 65,000 T-34 (all models) during ww2 despite relocating entire factories to the Urals. Why were the German totals so much less?	184
The Business Plot conspiracy in 1933. Gen. Smedley Butler claimed a plot to create a fascist veterans' organization and use it in a coup d'état seizing power over FDR, is there any new research done on affirming or discounting?	145
How prepared was Paris in 1914 to fight street to street in WW1? Were barricades erected, contingency plan in place in case of invasion? Or would capitulation and surrender be ordered?	144
The invasion of the USSR by the Germans had to have been planned for years if not decades in advance,, defeat is blamed on bad infrastructure, weather, faulty equipment... yet, all these issues had to have been know ahead of time. Why were they're preparedness so lacking?	127
How complicit was Richard Nixon in sabotaging the 1968 Vietnam Peace Talks? Why was it not exposed prior to the election? If true, did it amount to treason or similar capital offense?	110

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