Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (4 Viewers)

[Shinpachi]

Nakajima Z-plane for G10N Fugaku. Original plan suggested by Nakajima on August 8, 1943

Source: Strategy for Victory (1943)

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[vikingBerserker]

What a beautiful aircraft.

 

[Shinpachi]

Final shape of Fugaku is unknown as the prototype had been abandoned.

 

[Shinpachi]

What photographer Shunkichi Kikuchi(1916-1990) saw in color.

Source: The Japanese Army Wings of the Second World War (1972)

 

[Capt. Vick]

I can almost hear the crunch of the snow...

 

[Shinpachi]

What photographer Shunkichi Kikuchi(1916-1990) saw in color (the rest).

Source: The Japanese Army Wings of the Second World War (1972)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

What photographer Shunkichi Kikuchi(1916-1990) saw in color.

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Source: The Japanese Army Wings of the Second World War (1972)

What photographer Shunkichi Kikuchi(1916-1990) saw in color (the rest).

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Source: The Japanese Army Wings of the Second World War (1972)

Awesome pics! I had never seen them before.

Does the text says where they were taken?

 

[Shinpachi]

Does the text says where they were taken?

1,2,3 and 4 are in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture as 53rd sentai.
5,6,7 and 8 are in Mukden, Manchuria.
9 and 10 are unknown.
11 and 12 are in Hamamatsu as Hamamatsu Flight School.
13 and 14 are also in Mukden, Manchuria.

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

1,2,3 and 4 are in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture as 53rd sentai.
5,6,7 and 8 are in Mukden, Manchuria.
9 and 10 are unknown.
11 and 12 are in Hamamatsu as Hamamatsu Flight School.
13 and 14 are also in Mukden, Manchuria.

As always a most interesting post. Many thanks!

 

[Shinpachi]

Thanks Azul.
Photographers did not fail to take the best shots but 99.9% of the published ones were monochrome because color films were reversal ones which were costly to print. In my impression, at least 1% of pictures could have been taken in color.

Best shots

Source: Ocean Boys (Nov.1941)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

The world of 1/1000 sec. with Speed Graphic camera in 1941.

Source: Press Photos (April 1941)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Refugees from Europe arrive at Kobe, Japan in April, 1941.

Source: Press Photos (April 1941)

 

[Shinpachi]

By the way, here is a stone lantern with markings of Emperor and Hata family near the Ise Shrine.
The Hata family who served Emperor in the 8th century is said Jews.

Source: 【日ユ同祖論】皇室の「菊の紋章」とユダヤ人の王ダビデの紋章「六芒星」の謎

 

[SaparotRob]

Cool!

 

[Shinpachi]

This design is regarded as talisman since ancient times.

Source: 手ぬぐいの柄の意味（籠目柄） | オリジナル手ぬぐいオーダーメイド製作 | 京屋染物店

 

[Shinpachi]

Japanese media minded how Japan looked to the western media in 1940.
This is same even today. What they need will be confidence as an independent people.

Source: Press Photos (March 1941)

 

[Wurger]