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You and a lot of other people. Estimated casualties for the amphibious invasion of the Japanese home islands were somewhere in the neighborhood of 1,000,000 US and allied forces. The plan involved invading and paving most of Kyushu and fortifying the island as a jumping-off point to the rest...

I'm the proud owner of a t-shirt sold to me by the crew of a 2BMW B-52H that visited the local airshow last year. On the back are a B-17, B-29 and B-52 flying in formation (in a Boeing-issue partly-cloudy sky). Above and below are printed: "Flight of the Fortress. Winning America's Wars for 70...

Not all USAF blue vehicles were Strata Blue. In fact, Strata was gone (except at the base boneyards) by the time I was old enough to be interested in blue things with wheels (that would have been about 1972). Strata Blue is the color of the deuce above. It's correct for stuff from the 1950s...