Tarawa (2)

Pacific Paratrooper

Betio, Tarawa after the fighting Betio, Tarawa after the fighting

Miscommunication blighted the operation. As a result, the 1st Battalion spent a miserable night bobbing up and down in their landing craft before landing on the second day, not using a deep water channel that had been found, but once again wading across the reefs in the face of enemy gunfire.

Despite their struggles, the Americans were finally making headway.  Air strikes weakened the Japanese artillery, and Major Ryan’s 3rd Battalion were able to advance, clearing the western beach and the coast opposite the pier.  More troops landed on the second evening.

The troopship Doyen was ordered into the lagoon to accept the most critically wounded.  Lt.Cmdr. James Oliver, Medical Corps, led a 5-man surgical team with experience in the Aleutians.  They treated 390 Marines and only lost 9 men.

Meanwhile, an air attack on the neighboring island of Bairiki blew…

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Tarawa (1)

Pacific Paratrooper

LVT out of commission. LVT out of commission.

The Battle of Tarawa was one of the more terrible American experiences in the Pacific theatre of World War Two. It was one that would shape the future of amphibious assaults.

In late 1943, the United States launched attacks in the central Pacific. These were meant to speed up victory in the war by drawing Japanese forces away from larger offensives. The Tarawa atoll, part of the Gilbert Islands, was one of the targets of this advance.

Tarawa is made of fifteen small islands in the shape of a triangle, their total land area only twelve square miles. In the center is a lagoon, and reefs shelter many parts of the atoll. The British, who had governed the atoll before the war, were remarkably ill-informed about it. All their maps were over a century old, and they had no records of the tides and currents in the…

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Tantas historias

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

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Hay tantas historias desterradas de los libros y desgarradas de la memoria colectiva e individual. Naufragan en los recuerdos de algunos, en las imágenes de otros, en lo que unos relataron a sus descendientes, en lo que aquellos escribieron en sus libretas de apuntes. Se trata de anécdotas olvidadas, episodios humanos extraviados, vivencias que alteraron los años o que, a pesar de que parezca extraño, permanecen en los cuadernos y en las listas de los que ya están ausentes. Vivencias que se deshilvanan desde la existencia otoñal y las mañanas y las noches de invierno, con sus tardes y sus madrugadas incluidas, y que la ausencia y los años repetidos se encargan de desdibujar. Hemos olvidado, parece, ser hombres y mujeres grandiosos e irrepetibles, protagonizar capítulos singulares e intensos, acaso porque de pronto aparecimos en cajas de cristal con…

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Just Two Short Bits of Snarky

Amen and amen!

Filosofa's Word

Yes, yes … Filosofa is still snarking and ranting … there is just so much wrong in this world, every bit of which could be so easily fixed with just the three ‘C’s – common sense, compassion, cooperation.  I did have more snippets than just these two short ones, but … I’m out of time, so I shall save them for later or tomorrow!  Gives you something to look forward to, eh?


Cosa Nostra rides again?

William Braddock is a Republican candidate from Florida who is hoping to be elected to fill the seat currently held by Democrat Charlie Crist, who is resigning to run for governor to (hopefully) replace the ignoble Ron DeSantis next year.  William Braddock is short on name recognition, but one thing he has plenty of is audacity.

Also running in that same GOP primary race is Anna Paulina Luna, an Air Force veteran who went…

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10 Ways to Erase unwanted thoughts.

Smiling Little Things

Guest Post : John Adams Negative thoughts feed our fears and starve our soul. They tend to push us into dark alleys, which ultimately lead to the black hole called depression. When we surround ourselves with the negative energy of intrusive thoughts, good things slip away. Breaking the habit of focusing on the bad possibilities […]

10 Ways to Erase unwanted thoughts.

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Biden says delta Covid variant is ‘particularly dangerous’ for young people

  • Biden doubled down Friday on his administration’s plea to Americans to get vaccinated against Covid-19 as quickly as possible.
  • CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said earlier Friday she expects delta to become the dominant variant in the United States.
  • Studies suggest delta is around 60% more transmissible than alpha, the variant first identified in the United Kingdom.

Source: Biden says delta Covid variant is ‘particularly dangerous’ for young people

Texas border communities’ business leaders fault state leaders’ focus on wall | The Texas Tribune

Source: Texas border communities’ business leaders fault state leaders’ focus on wall | The Texas Tribune

COVID-19 can infect the testicles, study reveals

New research out of Texas reports SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing COVID-19, can indeed infect the testicles. Scientists at the University of Texas say their work may help explain why some COVID-infected men complain of testicular pain or display lower-than-normal testosterone levels during their illness.

These findings are sure to make men the world over cross their legs in concern. Beyond that, however, study authors believe getting a better sense of how COVID-19 impacts the testicles holds major implications for men’s health moving forward. For instance, some autopsies performed on deceased COVID-19 patients reveal significant testicular disruption at the cellular level and traces of immune cells.

“Given the magnitude of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is critical to investigate how this disease can impact the testes, and the potential consequences for disease severity, reproductive health, and sexual transmission,” says lead study author Dr. Rafael Kroon Campos, a postdoctoral fellow at UTMB, in a university release.

Source: COVID-19 can infect the testicles, study reveals

Fact check: What do we know about the coronavirus delta variant? | Science| In-depth reporting on science and technology | DW | 18.06.2021

The earliest documented COVID-19 case caused by the delta variant (B.1.617.2) was first found in the Indian state of Maharashtra back in October 2020, and has since then spread widely throughout India and across the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) labelled it a “variant of concern” (VOC) on May 11.

So far, the WHO has identified four VOC: alpha (B.1.1.7), beta (B.1.351), gamma (P.1) and delta.

The delta variant has multiple mutations. Scientists don’t know the exact function of these mutations at this point in time but they are associated with allowing the virus to bind to the cells of humans and helping the virus to escape some immune responses, said Deepti Gurdasani, a clinical epidemiologist at Queen Mary University of London.

The delta variant is widespread and has been detected in more than 80 countries so far, according to the WHO. In the UK, tens of thousands of cases have been detected, according to the global science initiative GISAID, which is the highest number of identified delta cases in a country so far.

Source: Fact check: What do we know about the coronavirus delta variant? | Science| In-depth reporting on science and technology | DW | 18.06.2021

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