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Issue
20: Deep Winter, 2003
Box
Camera Adventures by Mike Connealy
African
Episcopal Church near Barrie, Ontario
Winter
Photos by W.J. Gibson
Magic
Death
Quotations
gathered...
Poem:
This Morning
Numbers
- WAR
Book
Recommendation:
An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 by Rick Atkinson
Special thanks to:
Ian Donen, Mike Connealy, and the moments of sunlight that
made it through.
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Numbers
- WAR
Hiroshima
and Nagasaki initial blast killed 210,000 Japanese, and within
five years wounded who died 130,000.
Incendiary
multi-plane raids on Tokyo March 9-10, 1945 estimated deaths from
firestorm 85,000 to 100,000
Okinawa
campaign 1945
- Involved at the
onset 4 US Army Divisions and 2 Marine Divisions for a total of 172,000
combatant troops and 115,000 support troops, and 1500 sea craft.
- US dead and missing
from April 1 to June 30, 1945 totalled 12,520 (4,582 Army, 2,938 Marines,
4,907 Navy personnel).
- American wounded
from all three services were 36,631. Non-battle casualties were more
than 26,000.
- Japanese military
dead amounted to 110,071 with 7,401 captured.
- Okinawan civilian
dead range from 75,000 to 140,000.
- Destroyed American
aircraft numbered 763 compared to Japanese aircraft losses of 7,700
planes.
- Japanes forces
sank 36 US Ships, damaged 368.
(source:
Gerald Astor, Operation Iceberg: The Invasion and Conquest of Okinawa
in World War II - An Oral History)
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