Why American .50 Cal Snipers Could shot Japanese Officers down even They hid a Mile Away

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  @peterbarrows8892 · 2 days ago

  My uncle Paul C Beardslee 1st Div Was one of the 57 Soldiers killed at the landing of Okinawa. He was a Capt. and a leader that could have not returned to the war, but was deemed to lead raw troops into battle and he gave his life to keep his belief in America.

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  @HiddenWarFiles-d9u · 6 hours ago

  (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8trHSv8zV4&amp;t=2816">46:56</a>) “It was the name of a sergeant from his company who had not come home from Okinawa.” A deeply moving ending that reminds us there were real lives and sacrifices behind every battlefield innovation. Do you think the greatest legacy of these soldiers was the weapon they helped pioneer or the lives they saved?

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  @mikeboggs9261 · 1 day ago

  My stepfather Thomas Hannes fought in the 362nd Artillery Brigade during world war II. He returned for the war with severe hearing loss. When I was a kid I looked at all the pictures that &nbsp;took. &nbsp;Some islands look like wastelands . Some of our soldiers were holding up souvenirs like Japanese flags. Fallen Japanese and American soldiers were on the ground. In 1965 I took the pictures to school to share with my friends and my class... My teacher confiscated the pictures called my parents and they were never returned. They decided that the pictures were too grotesque with dead,half naked American and Japanese troops. A lot of them were badly burned. I was in the third grade at Maplewood elementary school in Puyallup Washington. It was 1967. There was a lot of anti-war sentiment going on in 1967... My stepfather Tom never talked about the war. &nbsp;When I found the pictures and asked him about it. He would just say he did his job and he changed the subject.

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  @lamoe1777 · 1 day ago

  Marine 67 / 71, Sgt., Chulai, 68. The training the &quot;Dead Eyes&quot; got was literately beaten into us in boot camp.<br>Now 79, can hit a &quot;target at 300 feet. That&apos;s a heart shot across a football field. A head shot at 1/2 mile. A center mass at at mile.<br>1 mile? First shot ? &nbsp;Maybe , maybe not. 2 or 3? &nbsp;Yyep. Need a scope and steady rest bipod of course. What da you want, I&apos;m 79. :)

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  @DanielCope-w6z · 1 day ago (edited)

  My blood uncle got a bronze star and a purple heart medal, and came home alive with schrapnel in his head, but was Ok. This was on Iwo Jima!!! With the 5th Marines. His name was &quot;Buddy&quot; Deremer, first name Harvey. My older brother and myself are Marines. My father and his adopted uncle both served with Patton. All of us served Honorably!!!

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  @csjrogerson2377 · 7 hours ago

  This was a load of nonsense by the first minute. So what if you dont have a rifle (normally 30 cal in those days) that could be used accurately over 1 mile?<br>Why does the American have to shoot at one person? &nbsp;Why cant the American use a larger calibre weapon and fire at the cave entrance. Ever heard of 20mm, 40/60, 57mm, 75mm, 105mm. &nbsp;All of them do the job. &nbsp;This is AI drivel. &nbsp;Awfully Incompetent.

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  @nlbdispatch · 15 hours ago

  I’m just an army brat <br>my dad fought World War II<br>And I live in San Pedro, California by old Fort MacArthur Army base

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  @captnjack5637 · 13 hours ago

  This is about the 50 cal but not once did you even show the gun way to much AI &nbsp;BS

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  @MarkBerg-tk8js · 1 day ago

  Father at Okinawa , LCI r 648 perhaps the biggest battle in history. 3 months

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  @TimothyRHarris · 1 day ago

  My cousins Lester Reed was there. Note: Lester was 1 of the 3 Marines that raised the first American colors on MT Euro of hi (spelling)<br><br>We both live in Plymouth IN.

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  @richardbowie1 · 3 days ago

  shot and shoot are two different things.

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  @richyrich4672 · 1 day ago

  What I find funny is you don’t know the difference between these two words SHOT &amp; SHOOT.

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