Rod Phares

[The Iceman @the_iceman64]

90% of the soldiers on the first boats to hit the beach didn't live to see the end of the day. Look at those faces. Some of them never made it to 18.

Never forget that they paid the ultimate price for our freedom. We live our lives the way we do because of them.

[ELDORA SPEEDWAY @EldoraSpeedway]

Dillon McCowan wins Thursday’s Preliminary B-Main #2 🏁

Also Transferring to The Feature:

2. Justin Duty
3. Dan Ebert

#DLMDream

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

84 years ago today, the most important Japanese admiral in the Pacific sailed into a fog bank he could not see out of, carrying secret orders he believed were known to no one on earth.

The Americans had read them three weeks ago.

In May 1942, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had a plan to end the war in the Pacific in 30 days. He would draw the surviving US Navy carriers into a trap near a tiny atoll called Midway, 1,300 miles northwest of Hawaii, and destroy them with the largest naval force ever assembled. 200 ships. 700 aircraft. 100,000 men. Four heavy carriers under Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo would lead the strike. The American fleet, which had only three serviceable carriers left after the Coral Sea, would be annihilated. Then Hawaii would fall. Then the US would sue for peace.

The plan was perfect.

It was also compromised.

In a basement in Pearl Harbor, a small team of cryptanalysts under Commander Joseph Rochefort had broken the Japanese naval cipher JN-25 in the spring of 1942. They were reading roughly 20 percent of every Japanese signal in real time, and educated guesswork filled in the rest. By mid-May they knew the target was somewhere referred to only as "AF." But where was AF?

Rochefort had a hunch. He sent a signal in the clear from Midway saying their water distillation plant had broken down. Two days later, Japanese intercepts mentioned that "AF" was running short of fresh water. Bingo.

By May 27 Admiral Chester Nimitz knew the date of the Japanese attack, the composition of the Japanese force, the route Nagumo would take, and roughly the time he would launch his first strike. He pulled every American carrier to a point northeast of Midway called "Point Luck" and waited. The trap had been set for him. He set a trap inside the trap.

On June 2, Nagumo's four carriers approached Midway through the worst fog any of them had ever seen. Visibility dropped below 600 yards. His ships could barely see each other. He held radio silence to protect his approach. He believed he had complete surprise. He believed the American carriers were thousands of miles away in the South Pacific. He believed he was about to win the war.

Yamamoto, on the battleship Yamato 600 miles behind him, had intelligence that the American carriers might in fact be at sea. He chose not to break radio silence to warn Nagumo. He assumed Nagumo had the same intelligence. Nagumo did not.

At 4:30 AM on June 4, Nagumo launched 108 aircraft against Midway from a position the Americans had been waiting for him to reach.

By sunset, three of his four carriers were burning hulks. The fourth would sink the next morning. Japan lost 3,057 men, 248 aircraft, and the four best carriers of the Pacific War in a single day. Japanese naval aviation never recovered. The war was decided in six minutes between 10:22 and 10:28 AM on June 4.

The whole disaster traced back to one decision on June 2: a Japanese admiral sailing into fog, trusting that nobody knew where he was going.

[Rod Phares @PharesRod]

@chromedude1 Only thing the guy doesn't have is enough room for it all! Great collection of cool stuff!

[Rod Phares @PharesRod]

@Addicted2DirtPR Congrats Brian, 2 in a row! I'm gonna have to bribe the wheel, use a magnet on it, or hack into Rich's computer to keep up!

[Isle of Man TT Races @ttracesofficial]

Supersport machines scream through Ballagarey.

[Rod Phares @PharesRod]

@ShawnaRobbins_9 Happy Birthday! Welcome to the "half century old" club!😄

[Rod Phares @PharesRod]

@RedDirtMusic88 Don't know what game this is, but I'd say he got a perfect score!

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TRIVIA TIME! Click the link in the comments to see last week's ANSWER & WINNER, this week's NEW QUESTION, the POINT STANDINGS, and to submit your answer! Deadline is 11:59pm every Wednesday!

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[Rod Phares @PharesRod]

@Philip_Sarnecki Stop giving them tax breaks, instead charge 'em triple the rate for taxes, water, electricity,trash service, and whatever else they need.

[Rod Phares @PharesRod]

@chromedude1 That one got the VW engine or the Peugeot diesel? Ol' beast gonna get replaced by a drone someday!

[Rod Phares @PharesRod]

@Addicted2DirtPR I did. Still have a headache...

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FRIENDLY REMINDER! Did you enter this week yet? The deadline is 11:59pm tonight!

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[USS Arizona @USSArizona]

“The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.” Abraham Lincoln

On this Memorial Day, may we remember all those Americans who paid the supreme sacrifice on the oceans and lands across the world for our great nation.

Memorial Day 2026 🇺🇸

[Rod Phares @PharesRod]

@SenAdamSchiff F*"k you. Name one good thing you've EVER done in your pathetic life.

[Untold War Stories @UntoldWarFacts]

American bombardiers said they could drop a bomb into a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet.

The device they used to do it cost America $1.1 billion to build.

90,000 of them were manufactured during WW2.

Pilots took an oath to destroy it before letting it fall into enemy hands.

The Nazis had already stolen the plans in 1938.

This is the story of the Norden bombsight..🧵1/5

[Capitol Custom Trailers & Coaches @CapitolRenegade]

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[Rod Phares @PharesRod]

A week of overtime trying to get caught up, @NosEnergyDrink for breakfast to get through one more day before a 3 day weekend!

[Rod Phares @PharesRod]

@oscarmayer @IMS Chili Dog for the win

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