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"Oddest Mission Of WWII" Became "The Dirty Dozen" Chat


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1928 Thompson was there!

 

"The day after President Roosevelt died, USS LSM 51 proceeded on a mission described in Time Magazine as one of the oddest of the War."

 

"It was like a high colonic enema given at sea to some ugly, gray Jap monster of the deep."

 

Similar to the jerrycans dumped down the air shafts of the chateaux in 1967 "The Dirty Dozen" that Jim Brown ignited with grenades.

 

Company F of the 2nd Battalion, 151st Infantry Regiment, 38th Infantry Division along with the 113th Combat Engineer Battalion, pumped 3,000 gallons of two parts diesel fuel and one part gasoline through a vent shaft into Manila Bay Fort Drum battery and then used a timed fuse. The flammable mixture kept a fire burning in the fort for several days. It was five days before the fortress could finally be examined.

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