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The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 18 hours ago

How important each state was to the War Department, from 1940.

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How important each state was to the War Department, from 1940.

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The Picard Maneuver@piefed.world to Map Enthusiasts@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 18 hours ago
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  • verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works
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    🎶 Cut us loose! Cut us loose! We can handle dust storms and only FDR gives a [hoot] about us Okies anyways! 🎶

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    Finally there’s enough room on the map to spell out “Massachusetts” and they still didn’t, out of spite.

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      They couldn’t Google it back then.

    • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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      Couldn’t spell it.

  • verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works
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    Never mind all the infantry training in the Midwest for island hopping in the Pacific! This is 1940, we’ve got to focus on the war…

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      Or the training the air force did before dropping the bomb on Japan.

      • verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works
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        Thank you! :::pointing dramatically with both hands:::: Welcome to the vast land with a relatively low number of people per square mile. It was designed, by God’s good grace, for flying secret stuff, it starts in western Oklahoma.

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    Lmfao “ALL OTHER WESTERN STATES”

    • The Picard Maneuver@piefed.worldOP
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      “and the rest”

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    So I’m not lazy and useless, I’m just living up to my state’s strategic importance

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    How did Connecticut beat California? This was during ww2

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    I feel like they’re selling California short on this one.

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      That was 1940, I suspect a map from 1945 would be substantially different

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      Yeah, it would appear their plan was just to amputate everything except the NE, maybe because it would be indefensible.

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