And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, February 16, 2019
A Vought OS2U Kingfisher is recovered by the U.S. Navy battleship USS Texas off the shore of Iwo Jima in February 1945. (U.S. Navy Photograph.)
By the time the Iwo Jima campaign came along, we had total air superiority. But flying that airplane in an environment where there was even one Japanese Zero in the air would be suicide.
By the time the Iwo Jima campaign came along, we had total air superiority. But flying that airplane in an environment where there was even one Japanese Zero in the air would be suicide.
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