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Offline dracnal

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Re: Rolling Thunder
« Reply #125: December 07, 2015, 12:37:39 PM »
Going back to Oahu and visiting the Arizona again is on my bucket list. Would like to take the wife and maybe the kids if I'm feeling generous.  I really need to get up to Gettysburg at some point as well. Both battles could have had such vastly different outcomes, but for little factors.

In Pearl, they ignored the major fuel depots north of the harbor and the aircraft carriers were all out to sea. In Gettysburg, Lee's general orders for the battle were dropped by a courier riding to the front and discovered by Union soldiers prior to the fight. It's easy to imagine that might have gone differently if they didn't know where the spearhead was aimed.