Navy.ca's Fallen Comrades

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander in Chief of the Japanese Navy (about Pearl Harbor, 1942)

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MARCOM

Maritime Command

Today in Military History

December 13

1937:

Nanking falls to the Japanese, followed by the brutal "Rape of Nanking", up to 200,000 Chinese massacred (to 5 Feb 38)

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