Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (2 Viewers)

[vikingBerserker]

Excellent thread!

 

[Shinpachi]

Great photos Shinpachi. Since you posted them I've been looking for numbers of B-29 shot down over Japan. Nothing definite yet but not as many as I thought

The number seems to be estimated around 500 ( B-29 Losses ).
That would be the best for the Japanese at the time against the Super Fortress.

 

[Shinpachi]

ROC fighters intercept Japanese bombers.
They make good movies.

 

[Shinpachi]

Kao Chi-Hang (高志航 1907-1937)
Ace fighter of ROC Air Force.
He shot down 5 Japanese bombers and fighters.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

Yue Yi-Chin (乐以琴 1914-1937)
Also, ace fighter pilot of ROC Air Force.
Shot down 6 Japanese bombers and fighters.

Ironically, both Kao Chi-Hang and Yue Yi-Chin were killed soon after they changed planes to the I-16 as the engine did not work well.

 

[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

Shin, that is a brilliant piece of propaganda film production. Just re-read "Shanghai 1937: Stalingrad on the Yangtze" a grim account of that pivotal battle. At that point the Chinese were flying Curtis Hawk bi planes and Boeing Peashooters and not using them at all effectively. After the treaty with Stalin in 1938 Soviet aid and volunteer pilots started flowing in ... and the film you posted would be from that period. Getting the planes and crew to China was very problematic ... as tough as the Alaska air route to Russia post 1941.

 

[Shinpachi]

Very informative, MM.
Thanks for sharing and the term "propaganda film production" gets to the point well.

Families of Kao Chi-Hang and Yue Yi-Chin were abused terribly by Chinese communists when they took power in 1949.
In spite of it, they are now proud of these heroes as if their own. Taiwan poster says "This is exaggerated. Just for references."
The name Yue Yi-Chin is writen as 樂以琴, not 乐以琴, in Taiwan ROC.

 

[Shinpachi]

Flying Tiger Girls from China ?
No ROC flags.

Source: 2016美洲华姐美丽日志四  - 寻找飞虎队的记忆_小思看华姐-美洲赛区_新浪博客

 

[Shinpachi]

Another ROC topic.

Lin Zhi-Hui (林智惠 1926- )

She served in the Imperial Japanese Army as a nurse from Taiwan during the ww2.
A Taiwanese TV drama "智子之心" which introduced her life with friendly Japanese in last week has become controversial between the continent and the island.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots shinpachi!

 

[Shinpachi]

Recent Chinese words which interest me are -

媚日(mei ri) Chinese who flatter Japanese
精日(jing ri) Spritually Japanese

天然独(tian ran du) Young Taiwanese who think Taiwan is already independent from China

This is also a curious phenomenon.

Source: 从台灣學子扮演納粹谈媚日也是對歷史無知
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_6a592afb0102x43n.html

 

[Wurger]

 

[michaelmaltby]

...history and historical events are steeping into the fabric of Japanese society, perhaps. These phenomenon are most interesting.

 

[Shinpachi]

...history and historical events are steeping into the fabric of Japanese society, perhaps. These phenomenon are most interesting.

I agree with you, MM.
More than a hundred years ago, Chinese revolutionists like Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek tied up with Japan to overthrow the Qing dynasty. Japanese thought Chiang was a friend but later turned out that he was a mere 媚日(mei ri).
This was a bitter experience for the Japanese.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Great information my friend.

 

[fubar57]

Agreed

 

[Shinpachi]

A Chinese bomber crew reads a Japanese fighter's designation.
A rare footage since the ww2.

 

[Shinpachi]

Little time to miss the old days lately...