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So true

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So true

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A daily effective prayer for today to bless you. 🙏

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[theredqueendom]

🇺🇸 Don't let America down!! http://www.facebook.com/pages/p/102416041800702

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Why Japanese Troops Were Ordered NEVER to Shoot the "Guy on the Bulldozer"

-AmericanExceptionalism May 23, 2026

..On the island battlefields of the Pacific, the Japanese Imperial Army had studied every American weapon — the fighter planes, the naval guns, the flamethrowers, the Marines. But nothing prepared them for the man on the bulldozer. The US Navy Seabees were combat construction battalions assigned to build airstrips, roads, and fortifications in the middle of active fighting, often while battles were still raging around them. At first, Japanese snipers and machine gun crews inside reinforced pillboxes saw an obvious target — an unarmed construction worker sitting completely exposed on a piece of farm equipment. They shot at him. That was the last mistake they ever made. The Seabees had armored their bulldozers with thick steel plating, and when the shooting started, the man on the bulldozer didn't run. He lowered his blade, put the machine in gear, and drove straight into the fire.

What happened next became one of the most psychologically devastating tactics of the entire Pacific War. The armored Seabee would push massive walls of earth directly over the firing slit of the bunker — tons of dirt, compacted and unstoppable — sealing the Japanese soldiers inside their own fortification while they were still alive. There was no escape, no counter-move, no way to fight back against several tons of steel and earth moving toward you at walking pace. Word spread fast through Japanese units: shooting at the bulldozer was a guaranteed, inescapable death sentence. Imperial commanders eventually issued orders telling their troops never to engage the Seabees — because every time they did, the bunker crew died buried alive, and the airstrip got built anyway.

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Since 1979.

[norseminuteman]

Simone Segouin, mostly known by her codename, Nicole Minet, was only 18 when the Germans invaded. Her first act of rebellion was to steal a bicycle from a German military administration, slicing the tires of all of the other bikes and motorcycles so they couldn’t pursue her. She found a pocket of the Resistance and joined the fight, using the stolen bike to deliver messages between Resistance groups. She was an extremely fast learner and quickly became an expert at tactics and explosives. She led teams of Resistance fighters to capture German troops, set traps, and sabotage German equipment. As the war dragged on, her deeds escalated to derailing German trains, blocking roads, and blowing up bridges, helping to create a German-free path to help the Allied forces retake France from the inside. She was never caught. Segouin was present at the liberation of Chartres on August 23, 1944, and then the liberation of Paris two days later. She was promoted to lieutenant and awarded several medals, including the Croix de Guerre. After the war, she studied medicine and became a pediatric nurse. She is still going strong, and this October (2020) will turn 95.

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[theredqueendom]

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