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And China, and large parts of Africa. The Philippines. Probably a lot more than I can remember.

Your point stands tho.

Basically everywhere that wasn't the US and Canada (excluding Pearl Harbor).

Even Pearl Harbor caused minor damage, all things considered. I think many of the facilities were repaired and rebuilt within 1 year while many of the ships were actually recovered. The carriers weren't even there during the attack.

For the US it was a huge shock, for a country like Poland it was Tuesday.

Because I was curious, Friday might have been a better analogy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_1939#September_1,_19...

I think he was referring to the highly famous quite (/s) from Street Fighter the movie delivered by Raúl Juliá

Hey, a little respect for the quote! It's even up on TV Tropes: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ButForMeItWasTue...

I'll be honest and say I didn't even know the origin of the quote :-))

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