Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous

[Shinpachi]

Sorry but this last pic seems Tachikawa Ki-36 or Ki-55 'Ida' as it has a cannon hole.

Tachikawa Ki-55 in Thailand

Source: 2017年8月号 ＞ 博物館実機写真 ＞ (Photo) 九九式高等練習機 イン タイランド

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots shinpachi!

 

[Snautzer01]

WW2 Photo US Coast Guardsmen with Captured Japanese Flags - 8 X 10 | eBay

Whats the Anchor flag for?

 

[Snautzer01]

WW2 Photo US Marine, Wife and Kid Display a HUGE Japanese Garrison Flag 1944 | eBay

 

[Snautzer01]

WW2 Official Photo - US Marine MPs Display Captured Japanese Flags - Saipan 1944 | eBay

 

[Shinpachi]

WW2 Photo US Coast Guardsmen with Captured Japanese Flags - 8 X 10 | eBay

Whats the Anchor flag for?

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It's a towel in size of 90cm x 33cm, made of cotton. Good find

Source: 水兵手ぬぐい

 

[Snautzer01]

ORIGINAL WW2 8X6 KEYSTONE PRESS PHOTO U.S.A. "BE CAREFUL" POSTER TOKIO KID SAY.. | eBay

 

[Shinpachi]

Looks more interesting than the racism they say.

Source: 'American Peril: Imagining the Foreign Threat' Exhibit Preview – Pacific Citizen

 

[Capt. Vick]

First rule of any war, make the enemy unhuman.

 

[Snautzer01]

c5 orig.Japanese Army photo Germany Italy Japan Alliance flags on Tokyo street | eBay

 

[Shinpachi]

Caption: Let's show our skills to those who laughed at us saying "Can women do?"

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff shinpachi!

 

[vikingBerserker]

That same concept could have easily appeared in the US as well.

 

[Shinpachi]

Japanese girls in the sky and the sea circa 1940.

 

[SaparotRob]

This is great stuff. If you could, Shinpachi Sir, could you translate some of those banners? It would be fun to read the opposition's insults for a change of pace.

 

[Shinpachi]

This is great stuff. If you could, Shinpachi Sir, could you translate some of those banners? It would be fun to read the opposition's insults for a change of pace.

1. Girls fly to the sky
Girls of the Great Japan Women's Air Association Glider Club now work on gliders at the Matsudo airfield of 100,000 sq. meters in Chiba Prefecture.
They fly in the sky like men with well tanned face forgetting powder and rouge.
Their healthy bodies remind us of our traditional women's virtues as well as great hope they will become the mother of aviation Japan.

2. Sea Maidens
Yokosuka Marine Girls Group's Training
The girls of the Yokosuka Shinsho Girls' School Marine Girls Group challenge the sea by facing the reality of Japan in the war. They overcome such illusion and sentiment about the sea as girls tend to have. Competing with seagulls, they do marine training on the deck.
After raising the warship flag at 8:00 in the morning and chanting the ship rules, their training for a day begins immediately. Even the sea breeze and the scorching sun can't keep them from rowing boat, marching, practicing flag signal and expanding their hopes for conquering the ocean.
The huge hull of the floating castle Kasuga in the sea and these girls of the marine nation Japan look so reliable in the blue sea of Yokosuka, the military port.

 

[SaparotRob]

Thanks for the translations. I enjoyed reading them more than I thought. Please keep them coming.

 

[Snautzer01]

State Library Victoria - Viewer

RAAF at the Birma front.

 

[Shinpachi]

A U.S. military truck carrying seven bodies of executed Japanese Class-A war criminals, including wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, departs Sugamo Prison in Tokyo for a crematorium in Yokohama on Dec. 23, 1948.

Source: Scholar learns remains of Japan war criminals "scattered" in Pacific

Above photo is from recent local news titled -
Newly discovered documents shed light on disposal of Japan war criminals' remains
Scholar learns remains of Japan war criminals "scattered" in Pacific

The "scattered" in Pacific is common knowledge for my generation who grew up in the postwar but seems a surprise to younger guys. What they don't know is that a pot of ashes was recovered by a crematorium staff.