Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (7 Viewers)

[Shinpachi]

Good one

 

[Shinpachi]

Color pictures.
Kodachrome tells original colors and reliable but recent colorized ones are risky.

Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain by Bill Manbo in Kodachrome.

Demobilization at the Hiroshima station in September, 1945. Colorized.
A beautiful pic but these guys look the navy men. If so, the uniforms were in olive. I only wonder.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots guys!

 

[Wildcat]

Great photos!

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Capt. Vick]

Wow!

 

[Shinpachi]

Russians in Manchukuo.
There were many Russians as refugees from the Soviet Union and lived together with Manchurians, Chinese, Koreans and Japanese.

IJA Russian soldiers in Manchukuo. The Asano Squadron.

 

[Capt. Vick]

My God, the history I don't know.

 

[Shinpachi]

Here are details as the Asano Detachment.
Russians in the Service of the Japanese Emperor – China in WW2

 

[Wurger]

The Russians in Manchuria ...

 

[Shinpachi]

 

[michaelmaltby]

The Russians raped and looted in Manchuria, according to observers, as they had done in Europe with no need to have been at war with the Manchurian people to disabuse them

Great find, Shin, it harkens back to our conversation about national 'trust' of minorities.

 

[Wurger]

A captured Japanese 105mm gun type 38, Shumshu island

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Shinpachi]

IJA Colonel Nikolai B. Kossov. It seems that he had his own Chinese name 郭索福 (Guo Suofu).
As this ID card is written in all Chinese, he could have spoken Chinese.

 

[Thorlifter]

Does Guo Suofu mean something or is it just a name like John Smith?

 

[Shinpachi]

Good point, Thor

The 郭索福 (Guo Suofu) is a phonetic equivalent for his original name Kossov but the 郭 (Guo) is also a popular family name there.

 

[Wurger]

Captured Japanese tanks of different types at Kataoka on the Shumshu island ...

 

[Shinpachi]