🎶 Cut us loose! Cut us loose! We can handle dust storms and only FDR gives a [hoot] about us Okies anyways! 🎶
this post was submitted on 11 Oct 2025
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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...
Or the training the air force did before dropping the bomb on Japan.
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.
Finally there’s enough room on the map to spell out “Massachusetts” and they still didn’t, out of spite.
They couldn't Google it back then.
Couldn't spell it.
Lmfao “ALL OTHER WESTERN STATES”
"and the rest"
So I'm not lazy and useless, I'm just living up to my state's strategic importance
How did Connecticut beat California? This was during ww2
I feel like they're selling California short on this one.
That was 1940, I suspect a map from 1945 would be substantially different
Yeah, it would appear their plan was just to amputate everything except the NE, maybe because it would be indefensible.