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Like any warship design, it's a compromise. The design has to carry enough guns to send enough shells down range at a given time to hit a moving target. But they also need to be big enough to penetrate the enemy armor. And the design has to be fast enough to be able to engage the enemy. For those interested, look at those battleship designs that were a result of the Washington Naval Treaty. The Germans, Italians and Japanese did not obey treaty limits,

When the Anzac's went to Gallipoli so did the troops of the British Indian Army. ANZAC Corps Troops: 7th Indian Mountain Artillery Brigade (21st [Kohat] Battery and 26th [Jacob's] Battery) https://theprinciplesofwar.com/firepower/firepower-5-forgotten-gunners-of-gallipoli-7-mountain-indian-artillery-brigade/ The 29th Indian Brigade was attached to the ANZAC Corps for much of August: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/29th_Indian_Brigade "Despite being synonymous with Australia and New Zealand, ANZAC was a multi-national body: in addition to the many British officers in the corps and division staffs, the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps contained, at various points, the 7th Brigade of the Indian Mountain Artillery, Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps troops, the Zion Mule Corps, several battalions from the Royal Naval Division, the British 13th (Western) Division, one brigade of the British 10th (Irish) Division and the 29th Indian Brigade." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_and_New_Zealand_Army_Corps

Survived with a fair amount of brain damage.....

The Japanese Zero pilot is almost certainly the book "Samurai" which is about Saburo Sakai and was co-written by Martin Caidin. Apparently, in an effort to increase sales, much of the book was exaggerated. That's unfortunate, because other books I've read that mention Saburo Sakai, an honest book would have been more interesting. Sakai reportedly ran across a Dutch DC-3 loaded with refugees that was fleeing Indonesia and choose not to attack it, letting the plane and passengers escape. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saburō_Sakai The other was "Stuka Pilot" by Hans-Ulrich Rudel (I remembered the book, but not the pilot's name) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Ulrich_Rudel

I doubt they were looking at the glasses... And she's a smart enough moron to be worth at least tens of millions of dollars and possibly over a billion. I wish I was that stupid

It's often interesting to read about military history from the perspective of the enemy. For those of you interested in WWII history, two good ones are "Japanese Destroyer Captain" by Capt Tameichi Hara, who saw combat mostly in destroyers from Pearl Harbor to the sinking of the IJN Yamato, where he commanded the light cruiser IJN Yahagi. The second is 'Japan's Pacific War: Personal Accounts of the Emperor's Warriors by Peter Williams, an Australian author. While this book does contain some stories by pilots and sailors, most of the accounts are from junior officers and junior enlisted men who fought in New Guinea and some of the surrounding islands.

Here's a link: https://www.uclahealth.org/medical-services/radiology/interventional-radiology/treatments-procedures/genicular-artery-embolization-gae Interesting, but I don't know anyone who has had it done

I read about that years ago The B-17 could take an enormous amount of punishment, unfortunately the same could not be said of the B-24 http://www.daveswarbirds.com/b-17/contents.htm

Japanese pilots did not like attacking American heavy bombers. They considered them well armed and hard to shoot down

The B-17, like the DC-3/C-47 and PBY Catalina, were all known to be easy aircraft to fly.

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That's how I know it's time for bed or a nap