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Shinpachi · Jul 14, 2019

Tieleader said:
Love the look on this guy's face. It's like seeing an old Calvary vet meeting up with his trusted warhorse one last time.

I agree Tieleader.

Sgt. Ryo Okada of 403rd squadron of Tsukuba-Ku in 1945.

Source: 特修科航空術練習生 (@abk_hrn) | Twitter

Gnomey · Jul 14, 2019

Good stuff shinpachi!

Tieleader · Jul 14, 2019

Shinpachi said:
I agree Tieleader.

Sgt. Ryo Okada of 403rd squadron of Tsukuba-Ku in 1945.

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Source: 特修科航空術練習生 (@abk_hrn) | Twitter

I keep forgetting how YOUNG these guys were back in the day. I was told that the average age of a ww2 vet (US anyways) was 19!

Capt. Vick · Jul 14, 2019

I guess that makes Paul Harcourt a liar

Tieleader · Jul 15, 2019

Capt. Vick said:
I guess that makes Paul Harcourt a liar

For us uneducated monkeys who is that?

johnbr · Jul 16, 2019

Internet Archive Search: creator:"United States Strategic Bombing Survey"

Capt. Vick · Jul 16, 2019

Tieleader said:
For us uneducated monkeys who is that?

Sorry, Paul Hardcastle. He wrote the song "19" about the Vietnam war and in it there is the lyrics:

"In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was twenty-six
In Vietnam he was nineteen"

nuuumannn · Jul 16, 2019

Capt. Vick said:
Sorry, Paul Hardcastle.

I knew who you meant, Capt Vick. That song hit the charts in a big way here.

Gnomey · Jul 20, 2019

Nice stuff!

nuuumannn · Jul 21, 2019

21 July 1944

75 years ago, just before 1am, Claus von Stauffenberg, Werner von Haeften, Friedrich Olbricht, and Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim were executed by firing squad in this courtyard for their role in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.

Shinpachi · Jul 24, 2019

Joint exercise of Japanese and Chinese armies in Nanjing on March 10, 1943.

Source: JACAR
Ref code : A06031086000

Wurger · Jul 24, 2019

Shinpachi · Jul 24, 2019

Military training at school in Japan circa 1943.
Not a few Japanese American boys and girls were there.
They came to Japan because not only school expenses were cheaper than in the US but their parents in the US wanted them not to forget Japanese mind. Those who came in and out in the prewar could have contributed to the US as Nisei soldiers during the war.

Source: JACAR
Ref code : A06031086000

Wurger · Jul 24, 2019

N4521U · Jul 24, 2019

Shinpachi said:
Military training at school in Japan circa 1943.
Not a few Japanese American boys and girls were there.
They came to Japan because not only school expenses were cheaper than in the US but their parents in the US wanted them not to forget Japanese mind. Those who came in and out in the prewar could have contributed to the US as Nisei soldiers during the war.

In the U.S. 1993, I worked with a Japanese woman who was sent to Japan as a young girl in 1939, born in California. Never made it "home" before Dec. 7th 1941 and spent the duration of the war in Japan, never returned until 1947. She had to listen to all her relatives complain about being sent to internment camps, and how little compensation they got. Yoko had to live in poverty with her grandmother, wondering where the next meal was coming from. Most times begging fishermen for scraps. She saw the sky turn purple when the first bomb was dropped, said it was frightening.

Her husband was sent over as well, in 1940, born 40 miles from Yoko in California. He fled Japan to Manchuria, captured and was sent to Siberia where he was put into a labor camp, lived on and now hates potatoes. He didn't make it "home" until 1950. They didn't meet until they both had returned and happened to be at the same temple and introduced to one another.

The world is a tragedy and not getting any better Shinpachi

Shinpachi · Jul 25, 2019

Thanks for sharing precious story, Bill.
I am glad you are fine and agree with your opinion about the world.
Looks repeating same mistakes to get same lesson as if a new discovery.

Tieleader · Jul 25, 2019

N4521U said:
In the U.S. 1993, I worked with a Japanese woman who was sent to Japan as a young girl in 1939, born in California. Never made it "home" before Dec. 7th 1941 and spent the duration of the war in Japan, never returned until 1947. She had to listen to all her relatives complain about being sent to internment camps, and how little compensation they got. Yoko had to live in poverty with her grandmother, wondering where the next meal was coming from. Most times begging fishermen for scraps. She saw the sky turn purple when the first bomb was dropped, said it was frightening.

Her husband was sent over as well, in 1940, born 40 miles from Yoko in California. He fled Japan to Manchuria, captured and was sent to Siberia where he was put into a labor camp, lived on and now hates potatoes. He didn't make it "home" until 1950. They didn't meet until they both had returned and happened to be at the same temple and introduced to one another.

The world is a tragedy and not getting any better Shinpachi

There is a great line from Babylon 5..."All this has happened before and will happen again"

johnbr · Jul 26, 2019

Curtiss XP-37 art
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Gnomey · Jul 26, 2019

Good stuff guys!

johnbr · Jul 27, 2019

Curtiss XP-77

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