Groundhog Thread Part Deux - P-39 Fantasy and Fetish - The Never Ending Story (Mods take no responsibility for head against wall injuries sustained) (1 Viewer)

[GregP]

Maybe the IJA fighters shot down the IJN aircraft being escorted? Now that would an interesting thing to uncover if it happened, and would support that politics was alive and well in wartime Japan.

But I'm not suggesting it happened that way, just speculating. So please don't say a claim for this this originated with me.

 

[SaparotRob]

Maybe the IJA fighters shot down the IJN aircraft being escorted? Now that would an interesting thing to uncover if it happened, and would support that politics was alive and well in wartime Japan.

But I'm not suggesting it happened that way, just speculating. So please don't say a claim for this this originated with me.

Why not? Someone should fill in for Caidin.

 

[glennasher]

I think there is documentation that Tojo had tried to have Yamamoto assassinated prior to Pearl Harbor, which is why Yamamoto spent so much time aboard his flagship. It's kinda hard to believe that things could have been that bad between the IJA and IJN, but I've read about it in two different places. so it might be true. Maybe.

 

[GregP]

Interservice rivalry is alive and well today. it was alive and well in WWII and will be alive and well as long as there are budget fights to be found or until the two service have the same colors and insignias.

 

[gumbyk]

Maybe the IJA fighters shot down the IJN aircraft being escorted? Now that would an interesting thing to uncover if it happened, and would support that politics was alive and well in wartime Japan.

But I'm not suggesting it happened that way, just speculating. So please don't say a claim for this this originated with me.

Well, I've just read it on the internet, so it must be true!

 

[pbehn]

Well, I've just read it on the internet, so it must be true!

Ive just done a google search and can confirm it is a fact. (internet fact)

 

[GrauGeist]

It doesn't seem there were any high ranking officers (Army or Navy) lost on 11 January 1945.
I'm wondering if the "G4M" may have been a mis-identified KI-49, perhaps?

Bombers were often used to guide a flight between bases where long distances were involved, this may have been such an occasion.

 

[33k in the air]

Well, I've just read it on the internet, so it must be true!

"What I want to know is, out of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?"
"My dear doctor, they're all true."
"Even the lies?"
"Especially the lies."

 

[GregP]

I thought I was mistaken once, but I was wrong. Sort of like, "I bought some dehydrated water, but I didn't know what to add."

 

[GrauGeist]

I thought I was mistaken once, but I was wrong. Sort of like, "I bought some dehydrated water, but I didn't know what to add."

Did you try adding liquid oxygen?

 

[swampyankee]

I think there is documentation that Tojo had tried to have Yamamoto assassinated prior to Pearl Harbor, which is why Yamamoto spent so much time aboard his flagship. It's kinda hard to believe that things could have been that bad between the IJA and IJN, but I've read about it in two different places. so it might be true. Maybe.

It wasn't so much inter-service rivalry as that Yamamoto wasn't sufficiently willing to go to war with the US or UK. While the inter-service rivalry between the IJA and IJN was severe to the point of pathology, it wasn't why officers and politicians were murdered.

 

[SaparotRob]

I thought I was mistaken once, but I was wrong. Sort of like, "I bought some dehydrated water, but I didn't know what to add."

Hey, do you remember the recipe for ice? I forgot it.

 

[GregP]

It has something to do with hot water soup, things are getting hazy.

 

[GrauGeist]

Just don't try and make oatmeal with the coffeemaker.
It will not end well...

 

[GregP]

Sounds like a good cookie recipe ... coffee-oatmeal-chocolate chip. Mmmmm ....

 

[33k in the air]

Hey, do you remember the recipe for ice? I forgot it.

It's pretty simple, really:

Take two hydrogens, add one oxygen, chill until solid.

 

[buffnut453]

It's pretty simple, really:

Take two hydrogens, add one oxygen, chill until solid.

Last time I tried to make ice, I ended up burning it I wonder if I turned the dial the wrong way?

 

[pbehn]

Last time I tried to make ice, I ended up burning it I wonder if I turned the dial the wrong way?

Just follow a rocket, much safer.

 

[GregP]

I can see the long-term effects: As the number of pages of replies gets larger, we revert.

Where it ends depends on how many P-39's we count jumping over a fence before we fall asleep.

 

[SaparotRob]

Last time I tried to make ice, I ended up burning it I wonder if I turned the dial the wrong way?

You too?