It's Memorial Day, so, in honour of that, let's post valiant men, battles, sieges, etc.
Pic related. One of the greats.
It's Memorial Day, so, in honour of that, let's post valiant men, battles, sieges, etc
Asher Stewart
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Owen Fisher
Pleb-tier.
Now, Nimitz, that was a great general/admiral.
Nathan Hernandez
Do they have to be American? Even so, here's one of my home state's heroes, John Stark.
Cameron Mitchell
>loses the Philippines
>one of the greats
Thomas Baker
Memorial Day is for the soldiers who died in war, not the ones who turned tail and ran away from the fight...
That said, how about we pay respects to the dead. Anybody in our families that were KIA or MIA. My first cousin once removed was killed by a German shell in St. Lo after surviving Omaha. Was a basket case (original meaning is a soldier who was killed and there were no remains.) Respect.
Ryan Smith
What could he have done differently such that the Philippines wouldn't have fallen?
Hudson Diaz
By Not having diverged from the original plan and spreading out his troops onto the 100+ islands of the Philippines
Hudson Foster
Reinforce it with 200 more B17s, 500 fighters preferably not Buffalo, take EW radar seriously, bomb Formosa as soon as news of Pearl Harbor breaks.
Landon Price
Not taken a bribe to leave Japanese Taiwan untouched.
Sebastian Harris
None of that sounds like reasonable expectations.
Christopher Fisher
he was pretty bad in the korean war
Cooper Rivera
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Did the whole knight thing like he invented it, and kicked some good Swiss ass during the Battle of Marignano. The battle was so incredible for Francis I that the Good Knight knighted him then and there.
Jose Adams
Keep everything on the main island. The reality is unless the Allied navies can keep yo well supplied you're fucked. I don't think we'd be able to probably reinforce and supply the island considering the first 6 months of the war.
Sebastian Bailey
Mac was a preening mama's boy with way too many complexes
fixing a bombed out aircraft carrier in two days just in time for a DECISIVE BATTLE, how do you even pull that off
Brody Ward
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William Carter
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Hudson Morris
Soldier Millions.
Ayden Sanders
Nimitz didn't fix anything. He was an admiral, not a mechanic.
Asher Harris
Perkele
Jackson Nguyen
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Eli Mitchell
It would have fallen either way. But the defense of the Philippines was poorly executed because he wanted his plans to proceed, not the one originally conceived by Orange that in the end, he followed the original anyway but his forces were already scattered. Also, the fact that he let his Air Force based there be nearly wiped out a full 8 hours AFTER he received word that Pearl was under attack isn't really fitting for a general in command for the overall defense of the archipelago.
They could've given the Japanese a harder time conquering the island.
Adrian Walker
>At the Battle of Garigliano he single-handedly defended the bridge of the Garigliano against 200 Spaniards, an exploit that brought him such renown that Pope Julius II tried unsuccessfully to entice him into his service.[1]
absolute madman
Jason Martin
>be MacArthur
>get outmaneuvered by the PLA and Korean peasants
>be so shitty and bitter that you get removed from your post
>"b-but muh philipines!"
Colton Turner
>MacArthur
>losing against Koreans
Choose one.