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The Unendurable: The end of WWII

Part XV of the Islands of Blood

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Nathan Drescher
Aug 21, 2025
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80 years feels like a long time ago but it’s nothing in the grand scale of history. It’s a life. If you have a grandparent in their 90s today, they remember 80 years ago. Some may have been serving in the military at the time. Most will recall the day in August when the greatest conflict in human history finally came to end.

It did so in two fiery flash…

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