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vikingBerserker · Feb 3, 2020

Awesome pics! I always wonder what happened to folks in these pics

Shinpachi · Feb 4, 2020

vikingBerserker said:
Awesome pics! I always wonder what happened to folks in these pics

According to Masanobu Tsuji - a former staff of Imperial GHQ who stayed in Burma when the war was over and fled to Japan disguising a monk through Thailand, Vietnam and China, not a few Japanese officers were forced to work for the local governments as advisors. Ordinary soldiers were forced to fight for France in Vietnam. Soldiers in China were sent back to Japan immediately as Chiang Kai-shek did not know how to handle them well.

Shinpachi · Feb 6, 2020

Masanobu Tsuji (1902-1968?).
A former staff of Imperial GHQ as Colonel.
Genius of intelligence, demonic tactician and mad adventurist as the mastermind of the Nomonhan Incident (Battles of Khalkhin Gol ) in 1939.
Suddenly disappeared in Laos as a member of the Diet of Japan in 1968.
A man of mystery.

Source: Wiki and 「戦車に火炎瓶とシャベルで挑む」たった1人の軍人・辻政信が推し進めた"ノモンハン事件"とは | 文春オンライン

vikingBerserker · Feb 6, 2020

Tony Kambic · Feb 6, 2020

Engine Change.

Wurger · Feb 6, 2020

Gnomey · Feb 8, 2020

Good stuff guys!

Shinpachi · Feb 11, 2020

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' Nagoya Plant then and now.
The headquarter building aka Clock Tower is now used as new display room for a restored Zero and a Syusui replica since last month.

Source: 零式艦上戦闘機写真特集：時事ドットコム

Source: 旧三菱重工業名古屋航空機製作所本館 ( 名古屋市港区 ) - フォトライブラリー

Source: 三菱重、名古屋にゼロ戦復元機「航空史料室」開設（共同通信） - Yahoo!ニュース

Snautzer01 · Feb 13, 2020

NEW 6 X 4 PHOTO WW2 ALLIED SOLDIER 18 | eBay

Wurger · Feb 13, 2020

vikingBerserker · Feb 13, 2020

Nice!

Snautzer01 · Feb 15, 2020

1945 Press Photo Kure Naval Base, Honshu, view of bombing of Japanese carrier | eBay

Waldo says: Spot the carrier.

Snautzer01 · Feb 19, 2020

Press Photo American Prisoners of War in Japanese Internment Camp, Shanghai | eBay

manta22 · Feb 19, 2020

I'm not sure that this is the appropriate thread to post this in, but....

My wife and I were in Charleston, SC last week and visited the carrier Yorktown (CV-10) and the destroyer USS Laffey (DD-724). This is a photo of the Laffey radio room showing a rack with three R-390As. They are of a later generation since the Laffey participated in the D-Day invasion and also in the Okinawa campaign where it was struck by 4 bombs and 6 kamakazies.

An old photo of its 38 caliber gun mount struck by a kamakaze shows the horrific damage it inflicted. About half the turret gun crew was killed.

I had to take a picture of the Yorktown ready room where so many heroes of my youth waited for their missions. I read the book "Carrier War" by Lt JG Jensen cover-to-cover a hundred times when I was a kid and remembered names of those Yorktown pilots, such as "Jumpin' Joe" Clifton, Butch O'Hare, etc.