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[Shinpachi]

So, Asian people can unite but I think this kind of topic would not be popular with the old Allies.

Thai version

 

[Wurger]

 

[SaparotRob]

Thanks a lot Shinpachi-san. That tune is going to be stuck in my mind for a least a week!
Catchier than the Battleship March, though.

 

[Shinpachi]

Thanks a lot Shinpachi-san. That tune is going to be stuck in my mind for a least a week!
Catchier than the Battleship March, though.

Sorry to tell but Myanmar's National Army song comes from IJN's Gunkan March (Battleship March)

 

[SaparotRob]

Hi Ho, Hi Ho
to Wiki I must go!

(It seems appropriate to mention that the Star Spangled Banner is based on an English drinking song.)

 

[Shinpachi]

Hi Ho, Hi Ho
to Wiki I must go!

(It seems appropriate to mention that the Star Spangled Banner is based on an English drinking song.)

I have just confirmed the Anacreontic Song in Youtube.
Thank you very mcuh!

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff shinpachi!

 

[Snautzer01]

WWII Photo Negs FIFTH FIGHTER COMMAND 1943-44 Xmas Card JAPANESE ZERO New Guinea | eBay

No title on manila storage envelope. I have four (actually five) different versions of this Xmas Greeting for 1943 from the Fifth Fighter Command. Each features a different aircraft in flight. This one is different however - as it uses artwork instead of a photograph.

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[Snautzer01]

Aussies sayin' HI!

WWII Photo Neg AUSTRALIAN FORCES Off Duty TROOP IN SHORTS Papua New Guinea | eBay

Relaxed, Off Duty Australian Troop. I've seen dates on the envelopes from 1942 to 1944. Papua, New Guinea. Old WWII Negative. I have my suspicions that it was P-38 Lightning pilot and photographer "Chet" Williams.

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[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Shinpachi]

Based on the Anti-Comintern Protocol signed between Japan, Italy and Germany in Rome on November 6, 1937, Italian Fascist Goodwill Mission led by Marquis Giacomo Paulucci visited Tokyo from March 19, 1938 for a month. Italian light cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli also entered Kobe on April 10. A series of these photos show enthusiastic welcome by the Japanese people at the time.

 

[nuuumannn]

Aussies sayin' HI!

G'day mate! The officer is saying "Right, put the bloody camera away, mate, there's beers in the mess tent..."

 

[nuuumannn]

Italian light cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli

Excellent. Name ship of the third group of Condottieri Class cruisers (of which there were 12 completed of five groups, the sixth group ships were not finished), the ship had a long career, being converted into a cadet training ship after the war and was eventually scrapped, with components surviving in a park near Perugia, Italy.

More info here:

Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli - Wikipedia

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[Shinpachi]

As you see in 1938

in UK

in Osaka, Japan

in Geneva

in Tokyo, Japan

 

[Snautzer01]

WWII Photograph Of Captured Japanese Soldier World War Two Vintage Photo | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for WWII Photograph Of Captured Japanese Soldier World War Two Vintage Photo at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

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[Shinpachi]

His appearance looks an officer but rank is private first class.
He would have been a civilian for a long time till enlisted.
He was lucky to survive.

 

[Shinpachi]

Japan's another anti-comintern ally Nazi Germany sent the Condor aircraft as a goodwill mission from Berlin to Tokyo on November 28, 1938. She flew for two days via Basra and Hanoi and arrived at the Tachikawa airfield, Tokyo on the 30th.

At Tachikawa

Crews welcomed by German citizens in Tokyo

Japanese goodwill mission Takarazuka Revue girls who happened to visit Berlin had a chance to get aboard the Condor for Rome. Photo shows girls receive service in a bus.

His Highness Prince Chichibu (Hirohito's younger brother) shakes hands with Captain Henke and his crew

The Condor had ditched offshore Manila on her way back to Berlin on December 6. All crew rescured.

Ditched Condor.

 

[Wurger]

 

[ARTESH]

An interesting one! Also good one for diorama.

 

[ARTESH]

Based on the Anti-Comintern Protocol signed between Japan, Italy and Germany in Rome on November 6, 1937, Italian Fascist Goodwill Mission led by Marquis Giacomo Paulucci visited Tokyo from March 19, 1938 for a month. Italian light cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli also entered Kobe on April 10. A series of these photos show enthusiastic welcome by the Japanese people at the time.

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Shinpachi-san, can you give any information about the make-ups of two ladies in Kimono, in 5th photo from above?