Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (2 Viewers)

[Shinpachi]

Manchukuo emperor's younger brother Pu-giye engages Japanese princess Hiro on March 2, 1937.
Their daughter and her family live nearby Osaka.

Source: Press Rengo Photo News (March 1937)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Pu-giye and Hiro (center) with their family in Beijing, China circa March, 1964.

Source: 清王朝、愛新覚羅一族ゆかりの写真 - withnews（ウィズニュース）

 

[P-51-44-72028]

My Dad, Lt. Shotwell, standing next to the empennage of a buried a/c (what type?)....it was next to the 35th Fighter Group's Officers Club at Irumagawa AB, Japan, 1945-46. He flew a P-51 in the 40th FS.

 

[Shinpachi]

Looks like a Ki-44

 

[P-51-44-72028]

Looks like a Ki-44

That was my first thought too....but the horizontal stab is too high on the fuselage for a 44....?

 

[P-51-44-72028]

I am also not sure of the squadron of the a/c

 

[Shinpachi]

That was my first thought too....but the horizontal stab is too high on the fuselage for a 44....?

Sorry. Ki-84 looks closer

Source: 日本陸軍・ニ式単座戦闘機 キ44 鍾馗2型 Op.373 制作開始 | プラモ日記

 

[Shinpachi]

I am also not sure of the squadron of the a/c

Tail marking resembles the 22nd sentai but this unit stayed in Seoul, Korea when the war was over.
There was IJA flight school in Irumagawa from 1938 to 1945 and the tail marking of Kikusui (Chrysanthemum with water stream) was a symbol of kamikaze. So, it would be natural to think that the airframe belonged to the school and converted to the kamikaze purpose.

 

[Shinpachi]

Midget submarine launching test from the slope of a vessel near Kure on August 17, 1944.

I-31 and I-36 under construction at Yokosuka on March 12, 1941.

Source: Submarines in the past and the future (1959)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Japanese war movie during the wartime.
Real.

"Soil and Soldiers (1939)"

Source: Movie Information (Aug. 1939)

Actual movie

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewkwHeCYU7U&t=5530s

 

[Shinpachi]

Japanese war movie in the peacetime.
Humane.

....and speak too much as military men.
Not real.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2TLrPESN5k&t=1s

 

[manta22]

Japanese war movie in the peacetime.
Humane.

....and speak too much as military men.
Not real.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2TLrPESN5k&t=1s

Another Japanese war movie- 1959. Possibly the most depressing movie I've ever seen.


View: https://youtu.be/fHWOmXdHbXY

 

[Shinpachi]

Another Japanese war movie- 1959. Possibly the most depressing movie I've ever seen.


View: https://youtu.be/fHWOmXdHbXY

My father didn't know what happened in the Battle of Philippine until 1960s.
One evening, he came back from his job and told my mother "They ate even snakes!" "What?"
"They starved and ate snakes in Philippine!."

 

[manta22]

My father didn't know what happened in the Battle of Philippine until 1960s.
One evening, he came back from his job and told my mother "They ate even snakes!" "What?"
"They starved and ate snakes in Philippine!."

It was a matter of survival. There was no possibility of reinforcement or resupply; many simply starved. It was tragic- if more had surrendered they would have lived. As I said, this was a very depressing film. There is a companion film "The Burmese Harp" that is well worth watching but also has an air of impending doom.
View: https://archive.org/details/rqih-akb-7-zh-0-dmil-wxk-gfigtsnqsc-23-bcamv-hj-cwme-fc-fl-05-ai-aal-qx-0h-kk-pa

 

[manta22]

It was a matter of survival. There was no possibility of reinforcement or resupply; many simply starved. It was tragic- if more had surrendered they would have lived. As I said, this was a very depressing film. There is a companion film "The Burmese Harp" that is well worth watching but also has an air of impending doom.
View: https://archive.org/details/rqih-akb-7-zh-0-dmil-wxk-gfigtsnqsc-23-bcamv-hj-cwme-fc-fl-05-ai-aal-qx-0h-kk-pa

I actually prefer the original 1956 version in black & white. Color gives a viewer too much information sometimes. Stark B & W imparts an austere atmosphere that is more appropriate for some films. There are subtitles for these films somewhere.
View: https://archive.org/details/the.-burmese.-harp.-1956.720p.-blu-ray.x-264.-rosubbed-my-si-lu

 

[Shinpachi]

You remind me of old days a lot, Neil

Kaoru Yachigusa (1931-2019), Japanese actress.
I did not know she had passed away four years before though looked healthy.
She was known as Madam Butterfly in overseas in her early days and had been a gem of Japanese entertainment for decades.

Source: Kaoru Yachigusa STUNNING PORTRAIT in Madama Butterfly (1954) ORIG PHOTO 282 | eBay

Pablito Calvo (1948-2000), Spanish kid star of the movie "Marcelino Pan Y Vino" in 1955.
He met Kaoru Yachigusa in Cannes in 1955 and was said he did not leave her during the movie event.
This theme music has happened to remind me of him recently.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-l4BWfJ-vs

 

[Wurger]

 

[manta22]

You remind me of old days a lot, Neil

Kaoru Yachigusa (1931-2019), Japanese actress.
I did not know she had passed away four years before though looked healthy.
She was known as Madam Butterfly in overseas in her early days and had been a gem of Japanese entertainment for decades.

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Source: Kaoru Yachigusa STUNNING PORTRAIT in Madama Butterfly (1954) ORIG PHOTO 282 | eBay

Pablito Calvo (1948-2000), Spanish kid star of the movie "Marcelino Pan Y Vino" in 1955.
He met Kaoru Yachigusa in Cannes in 1955 and was said he did not leave her during the movie event.
This theme music has happened to remind me of him recently.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-l4BWfJ-vs

"You remind me of old days a lot, Neil " Maybe it is because I am 84 years old, Shinpachi.

Kaoru Yachigusa was certainly a beautiful woman!