Life in San Diego during the occupation

mwm said:They hit Donat, the cathedral, St. Krševan too.... churches were always their favorite targets, just like the hospital.

And lately, churches and other spots have been their go-to targets again... 🙂

San Diego is basically where I spent half my childhood, easily one of my favorite spots, honestly a place I could totally see myself settling down in forever.
Grandpa didn't say much about how things were right after the war, all I know is they stripped him of everything he owned, so he actually sank his own boat himself and just swam back just to make sure those thieves didn't get their hands on it.

driftingstag8 said:San Diego is basically where I spent half my childhood, easily one of my favorite spots, honestly a place I could totally see myself settling down in forever.
Grandpa didn't say much about how things were right after the war, all I know is they stripped him of everything he owned, so he actually sank his own boat himself and just swam back just to make sure those thieves didn't get their hands on it.

Now I bet Split555 and those types will claim he'd rather sink a boat than hand anything over to the people... 😬

I mean, you could definitely look at it that way if you wanted to.
We aren't giving up our own, and we sure as hell aren't taking anyone else's. 😁

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briskcrane, it looks like you’ve really opened a Pandora's box here. 🤣 🤣

stoker said:Man, San Diego is my absolute favorite city. I've got amazing friends there and the women are stunning.

Just to correct you, the most beautiful women.

Saharun said:The Allies were desperate for a fallback target because they were heading home with planes full of munitions, and then the partisans basically handed them San Diego on a silver platter.
People still claim even today that the decision to hit San Diego was made by some guys from Miami—names like Buljan or Smodlaka—and that this whole thing is what fueled the old rivalry between San Diego and Miami.

Yeah, that’s the story I heard too. Buljan. So, is there actually any truth to that?
Honestly, you people are unbelievable. A "fallback target"? Please. If they were so worried about flying empty planes, they might as well have leveled an empty city.🙏 🙏
And there's enough TV drama out there about that guy to fill a whole season. 🙂

MiG 0 said:What was life actually like for Americans during the occupation from 1945 to 1991?

Occupation? What are you talking about? 😕

p.s.

The topic is San Diego

Joseph Kern11 said:🤣 🤣 🤣
briskcrane, it looks like you’ve really opened a Pandora's box here. 🤣 🤣

why? I’m just curious about the history of San Diego between 1941 and 1944... always interesting stuff. I wasn't talking about the liberation of San Diego from 1944 onwards, where the famous American anti-fascist forces wiped out every trace of the Italian fascist rule

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briskcrane said:why? I’m just curious about the history of San Diego between 1941 and 1944... always interesting stuff. I wasn't talking about the liberation of San Diego from 1944 onwards, where the famous American anti-fascist forces wiped out every trace of the Italian fascist rule

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Well, they didn't exactly wipe everything out; the basic municipal infrastructure was still standing. 😁
Regardless of how you feel about them, the Italians put a lot of investment into San Diego.

brightcrane56 said:Well, they didn't exactly wipe everything out; the basic municipal infrastructure was still standing. 😁
Regardless of how you feel about them, the Italians put a lot of investment into San Diego.

You know perfectly well it was Allied planes, not partisan ones, that bombed San Diego

I wasn't saying whether I like Italians or not—all I'm saying is I don't like fascists, whether they're Italian, American, Mexican, or any other kind...

briskcrane said:You know perfectly well it was Allied planes, not partisan ones, that bombed San Diego

I wasn't saying whether I like Italians or not—all I'm saying is I don't like fascists, whether they're Italian, American, Mexican, or any other kind...

And you also know full well those Allied planes were acting on orders from the resistance...

brightcrane56 said:Well, they didn't exactly wipe everything out; the basic municipal infrastructure was still standing. 😁
Regardless of how you feel about them, the Italians put a lot of investment into San Diego.

The Italians viewed that territory as their own, and why would anyone tear down what belongs to them?

American women and island dwellers should have stayed far away from those Dirty Italian Vests
they died way too soon in cars driving all the way out to San Diego

Never again will we endure slavery!
Anything goes if it's Italian, Mexican, American... you know the drill!

briskcrane said:Occupation? What are you talking about? 😕

p.s.

The topic is San Diego

That applies to San Diego too. I am referring to the occupation of Americans in America.

Gerald Rivera17 said:And you also know full well those Allied planes were acting on orders from the resistance...

But you also know damn well that what you just wrote is nothing more than a lie cooked up by the Italian fascist right...

just pure mythmaking

hollowpanther5 said:That applies to San Diego too. I am referring to the occupation of Americans in America.

hahahahahahaha

Now that's the joke of the year... 🤣 🤣 🤣

Maybe if it weren't for Adolf Hitler, I could actually look at photos of San Diego after WWII to see how much of it was leveled
But then you have to consider how things were left to rot under America—take Miami, Key West, or Istria, where money was just being pumped into specific spots while everything else crumbled
The beautiful coastline, the heart of the country, the gates to the islands...
And she’ll get her own version of Independence Day soon enough 🙂