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I agree Tieleader.
Sgt. Ryo Okada of 403rd squadron of Tsukuba-Ku in 1945.
Source: 特修科航空術練習生 (@abk_hrn) | Twitter
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I agree Tieleader.
Sgt. Ryo Okada of 403rd squadron of Tsukuba-Ku in 1945.
Source: 特修科航空術練習生 (@abk_hrn) | Twitter
Good stuff shinpachi!
I keep forgetting how YOUNG these guys were back in the day. I was told that the average age of a ww2 vet (US anyways) was 19!
I guess that makes Paul Harcourt a liar
For us uneducated monkeys who is that?
johnbr
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Sorry, Paul Hardcastle. He wrote the song "19" about the Vietnam war and in it there is the lyrics:
"In World War II the average age of the combat soldier was twenty-six
In Vietnam he was nineteen"
I knew who you meant, Capt Vick. That song hit the charts in a big way here.
Nice stuff!
75 years ago, just before 1am, Claus von Stauffenberg, Werner von Haeften, Friedrich Olbricht, and Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim were executed by firing squad in this courtyard for their role in the 20 July plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
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Military training at school in Japan circa 1943.
Not a few Japanese American boys and girls were there.
They came to Japan because not only school expenses were cheaper than in the US but their parents in the US wanted them not to forget Japanese mind. Those who came in and out in the prewar could have contributed to the US as Nisei soldiers during the war.
Source: JACAR
Ref code : A06031086000
Not a few Japanese American boys and girls were there.
They came to Japan because not only school expenses were cheaper than in the US but their parents in the US wanted them not to forget Japanese mind. Those who came in and out in the prewar could have contributed to the US as Nisei soldiers during the war.
Source: JACAR
Ref code : A06031086000
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In the U.S. 1993, I worked with a Japanese woman who was sent to Japan as a young girl in 1939, born in California. Never made it "home" before Dec. 7th 1941 and spent the duration of the war in Japan, never returned until 1947. She had to listen to all her relatives complain about being sent to internment camps, and how little compensation they got. Yoko had to live in poverty with her grandmother, wondering where the next meal was coming from. Most times begging fishermen for scraps. She saw the sky turn purple when the first bomb was dropped, said it was frightening.
Her husband was sent over as well, in 1940, born 40 miles from Yoko in California. He fled Japan to Manchuria, captured and was sent to Siberia where he was put into a labor camp, lived on and now hates potatoes. He didn't make it "home" until 1950. They didn't meet until they both had returned and happened to be at the same temple and introduced to one another.
The world is a tragedy and not getting any better Shinpachi
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There is a great line from Babylon 5..."All this has happened before and will happen again"
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Good stuff guys!
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