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Old 08-16-2022, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by chico20854 View Post
August 13, 1997The Sierra-III class sub K-231 begins its sole combat patrol from the Balaclava naval base in the Crimea; the boat's voyage transits the Bosporus (submerged) and Mediterranean.
That must be one of the most hazardous transit routes in the war at that time.

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August 14, 1997As the fighting in the ruins of the 1st of May Stadium in central Pyongyang has gone almost entirely underground, the commander of the Japanese 1st Airborne Brigade suddenly orders all Allied forces aboveground. Within an hour the order has been carried out, and one of the war's great atrocities unfolds when trucks arrive and begin dumping bags of dry chemicals on the ground by the entrances to the subterranean network.
There would be quite a lot of competition for that title by that stage of the war, I'm sure.
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