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  "path": "/2026/03/30/the-fall-of-singapore-dien-bien-phu-and-the-battle-for-kharg-island/",
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  "textContent": "The World War II chapters of my introductory history textbooks always devoted a great deal of space to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that brought our country into the conflict. But they only spent a couple of paragraphs on the major military victories of Japan that had soon followed. Perhaps a single sentence was…",
  "title": "The Fall of Singapore, Dien Bien Phu… and the Battle for Kharg Island?, by Ron Unz"
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