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Originally Posted by chico20854
Less than 30 minutes later three warheads detonate over the refinery in Whiting, Indiana, two over the refinery in Lemont, Illinois (on the southwest outer edge of the city's suburbs) and three over the refinery and Army Ammunition Plant in Joliet.
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An interesting note on the Lemont Illinois strike. The refinery in Lemont Illinois (near where my uncle and many cousins lived at the time) is listed incorectly in canon as Lemont, Texas. As I dug around, I discovered that there is no Lemont, Texas, and that there is no refinery in or near Lamont, Texas, but there is a quite large one in Lemont, Illinois. I looked back at the 1979 Office of Technology Assessment report the Effects of Nuclear War, that GDW used as the primary source of its target list, and discovered that OTA incorrectly listed it (and the Robinson, IL refinery) as being in Texas.
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I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours. When it was all over, I walked up. We didn't find one of 'em, not one stinkin' body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like... victory. Someday this war's gonna end...
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