Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous

[Shinpachi]

Maybe a new 2022 edition could be in the oven due to recent events in Ukrainia

Agreed. I feel great sympathy for the innocent Ukrainian people again and again.

 

[Shinpachi]

At the Luneta Park in Manila, Philippine during the ww2.

Photo by Shigezo Miyauchi with Sakura color film.
Source: Press Photos (Feb. 1944)

 

[Shinpachi]

Japanese propaganda staff and journalists in the front.

Propaganda unit in Singapore

In Philippine

In Philippine and Singapore Just after the occupation

Loudspeaker unit, cameramen and even a painter in Philippine

Source: Press Photos (April 1942)

 

[Shinpachi]

The war painter has interested me.
What painter Saburo Miyamoto(1905-1974) saw in the front of Malaya.

To be continued

 

[Shinpachi]

To be continued

 

[Shinpachi]

Miyamoto at work

Miyamoto's representative work

Wainwright and Honma in Manila

Source: Saburo Miyamoto's Southern Front Art Book (1944)

 

[Wurger]

 

[vikingBerserker]

Excellent, thank you for sharing those.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Mad skills

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots shinpachi!

 

[manta22]

Beautiful Art Work!

 

[Shinpachi]

US flying boats introduced to the Japanese people in 1941.

Source: Ocean Boys (1941-07&09&10)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Douglas B-19 introduced to the Japanese people in 1941.
An expert at the time questions if this aircraft may be too heavy, like DC-4E which Japan purchased in 1939, to go into service.

Source: Ocean Boys (1941-04&07&10)

 

[Shinpachi]

DC-4E for Japan Air Lines in 1939.
This was too heavy to be in service as a passenger plane but used for technical research by IJN

Source: Photo Weekly (Dec.1939)

Nakajima G5N Shinzan. This was developed based on above DC-4E but still too heavy to be in service

Source: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EbRh7TgU0AAZ3KM.jpg

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Nakajima G5N1 and G5N2-L transport type of Shinzan

Half scale model for the strength tests

Source: FAOW

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Nakajima G5N1 and G5N2-L transport type of Shinzan

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Half scale model for the strength tests
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Source: FAOW

Very beautiful plane. Do you know the publication date?

 

[Shinpachi]

Very beautiful plane. Do you know the publication date?

It's October 1977.
Obtained in the internet many many years ago.

 

[Wurger]