The units slated to participate in Operation Downfall—the Allied invasions of Japan—as of about August 1945.
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“Your moneys no good here. Orders of the house.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
“Selflessness is like waiting in a hospital
In a badly-fitting suit on a cold wet morning.
Selfishness is like listening to good jazz
With drinks for further orders and a huge fire.”
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“Above the bayonets, mixed and crossed,
Men saw a gray, gigantic ghost
Receding through the battle cloud,
And heard across the tempest loud
The death cry of a nation lost!”
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