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I learned about the Bangalore torpedo from DC comics, Our Army At War (?). The issue was about Sargent Rock encountering his identical twin at Omaha Beach in a blasted bunker. He was a Greman!
A Greman, eh? :) actually, I preferred "Two-Fisted Tales". The artwork was really good.
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Paris-Tokyo flight in 1937.
In the evening of May 26, 1937, French flyers Marcel Doret and François Micheletti crash-landed on the beach of Kochi Prefecture, 600 kilo-meters to Tokyo. They were rescued by the local people but had wounded for three weeks in the red cross hospital.

Soon after the crash.
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François Micheletti and Marcel Doret with French Ambassodor Charles Arséne Henry and his wife in Tokyo
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Source: Press Rengo Photo News (May 1937)
 
Great picture. Never went to Berlin but I spent a 3 years in Fulda on the boarder.
It was our job to protect the Fulda Gap from Soviet & Warsaw Block armor. We were part of V Corps artillery, armed with Corporal IIB guided missiles. It carried either a nuclear or conventional warhead.
 
My father worked for Pan Am and we used to fly to Berlin to visit family then rent a car and drive thru checkpoints to Poland. Remember all the tank traps, mine field signs that were posted. Remember my dad making a mistake and an East German border guard yelling Halt auf, öffne dein verdammtes Fenster and a bunch of them pointing their sub machine guns at us, fun times. We did that 4 or 5 times and it was always interesting
 
My father worked for Pan Am and we used to fly to Berlin to visit family then rent a car and drive thru checkpoints to Poland. Remember all the tank traps, mine field signs that were posted. Remember my dad making a mistake and an East German border guard yelling Halt auf, öffne dein verdammtes Fenster and a bunch of them pointing their sub machine guns at us, fun times. We did that 4 or 5 times and it was always interesting
Every family has it's version of family fun!
 
SEYA Yokohama Japan 1945

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Prince Higashi-kuni Naruhiko (1887-1990) with the aircraft for his mission on May 14, 1937.
Caption says he uses aircraft Envoy or Douglas but does not tell which one this is.

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Source: Press Rengo Photo News (May 1937)
 
I agree. The Beechcraft Model 17.
 
Just confirmed that Japan Air Transport Co., Ltd. purchased a Beechcraft D-17E in 1936.
Tachikawa & Tokyo Aircraft Co., Ltd. assembled the model in April, 1937 for the first time.
Licensed 20 in total were assembled by April, 1939.
Thanks.

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Source: 10 Years of Japan Air Transport Co., Ltd (1938)
It was C17E, not D-17E.
Sorry.

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