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Correct of course (except for one of the valley - Hakone, and the best coffee - Shibuya). I had never been so far, seen so many people/such big cities - such a degree of civilisation. thank you Shinpachi on behalf of Japan for having us, and sorry about the noise ...

and these for colour;

Guess where I've been, Shinpachi! My neighbourhood too - given 7 hours on a sometimes affordable B787; what this is showing: - I don't know, but this would appear to be this; this for the F-82 content; first time to Japan and we are in love with it. steven

Yampi Sound was probably of interest to the pearling trade; Thursday Island on the east had had a large Japanese element due to it but the modern industry is all north-west coast

Great, Shinpachi - It is very interesting for the big picture of geopolitics and I'ld never have found it ; Smith's Weekly was not really 'mainstream' press ( provocative and disrespectful, best cartoons though ). O>T> but there is reference to a '... Japanese naval base and arsenal at Borrin...

should be careful lest we conflate work/words of two quite divergent authors here; one is a bona fide historian - the other one it seems has some relevant experience -which has informed at least one book ie knew le may - dunno about your zach though.

Really though, as it's just a book review by a peer, it has done the job - i want to get the Ham and will try to find the reviewers book/s. Preaching to the converted works ...

an awful lot of writing is to do just that. lets agree that in the examples above the facts are spun, by use of weasel wording to precondition for something. there are more fact-y bits there that should not be dismissed though ... citing primary sources, iirc.

ok the airspace was not 100% until all those propellers were detached - we all know this - but writing in the LArb? I think its an interpretation, just to quickly illustrate the increasing impunity/supremacy; would that readership appreciate what Iwo Jima looked like by then? As to Napalm - the...

yes, but apart from those obvious bits i warned about ...

Then, as it is about all this; Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and American Militarism | The Los Angeles Review of Books suppose he knows his stuff or at least more than most - obviously some niggles, but - its such a good point he gets to ... ( Paul Ham, at least his Kokoda - is excellent, btw)

On 22 June 1936, a Blackburn Baffin, S5162 of A Flight, RAF Gosport, flown by Lt Guy Kennedy Horsey on torpedo-dropping practice, buzzed Normandie a mile (2 km) off Ryde Pier and collided with a derrick which was transferring a motor car belonging to Arthur Evans, MP, onto a barge alongside the...

https://picasaweb.google.com/106927254990340966092/Jogjakarta2014?authuser=0&feat=directlink posting this link in hope some better than nothing photos might interest someone. steven.

parlous state still much later as noted in that fillum about the Iwo Jima guys touring to sell bonds ...

too late to be of reference for this build but - what is variant is it? http://31.media.tumblr.com/00f304d56899b8a81a591328381e00d1/tumblr_ms5omkUkxc1roe9r1o1_1280.jpg