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Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).
Worst Places to be in History?
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Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Heard it was a bad day...
WWII submarine or in a flying fortress being shot at with flak both would terrify me the most in the context of "war" i think.
AgEngDawg
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An early Christian in the Roman Empire
AgEngDawg
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Yea that was a widow maker.
preshlock
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there were German infantry regiments on the East Front that took over 900% casualties
Ok, explain this to me like I am Joe Biden. Did the Russians kill them all 9 times?
preshlock
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a German infantry regiment at the time of the invasion of the Soviet Union had about 3,000 troops. So by the end of the war there were German infantry regiments that had taken 27,000 casualties. Meaning that replacements sent to the regiment were constantly becoming casualties.
Yea, that sucks. If still go with not being in an area of a nuclear bomb though.
Especially if you survived and not instantly vaporized.
My best friends brother went down with the Scorpion in 1968.
USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear powered submarine that served in the United States Navy and the sixth vessel, and second submarine, of the U.S. Navy to carry that name. Scorpion was lost with her entire 99-person crew on 22 May 1968. She is one of two nuclear submarines the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being USS Thresher. It was one of the four mysterious submarine disappearances in 1968, the others being the Israeli submarine INS Dakar, the French submarine Minerve, and the Soviet submarine K-129.
USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was a Skipjack-class nuclear powered submarine that served in the United States Navy and the sixth vessel, and second submarine, of the U.S. Navy to carry that name. Scorpion was lost with her entire 99-person crew on 22 May 1968. She is one of two nuclear submarines the U.S. Navy has lost, the other being USS Thresher. It was one of the four mysterious submarine disappearances in 1968, the others being the Israeli submarine INS Dakar, the French submarine Minerve, and the Soviet submarine K-129.
These guys:
Franklin would have been up there too!
Franklin would have been up there too!
QuanChi
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