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One of the 12 Mighty Orphans, a movie about an orphanage football team. This one flew 62 missions, became a Lieutenant Colonel.
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The other side of Japanese society during the Korean War in 1950-1951.

Pachinko/Philopon/Panpan
(Pinball gamble/Stimulant drug/Prostitute)
- People lived for the moment in the anxiety of another war.

Hard to translate.
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Source: Pictorial Modern History: Postwar World and Japan Vol.9 (1955)
 
To further add to the story of "Swamp Gal", after the 26 missions flown by Pete Torres from the movie 12 Mighty Orphans.
Quite a yarn worth a read.
 
Road to the Separate Peace Treaty.
San Francisco Conference for the Peace Treaty with Japan begins
- for full reconciliation and trust

The Peace Conference with Japan began on September 4, 1951 with the aim of bringing a complete end to the Pacific War.

Fifty-one countries attended. The People's Republic of China was excluded. Burma and India opposed to the draft provided by the US and refused to attend.

In response to the Dulles Draft, the representative of Egypt stated, reminding that Egypt itself was under occupation by a foreign country, "The conclusion of a US-Japan security treaty should be negotiated separately from this peace treaty."

Soviet representative also proposed amendment to the Dulles Draft but this was ignored by the US and Japan representatives.

Soviet Union, Poland, and Czechoslovakia refused to sign.
Finally, the peace treaty was concluded according to the Dulles Draft.

Truman declared "Japan has become a democratic and peaceful nation now" and emphasized that Japan's security should be organically integrated with other democratic nations in the future.

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PM Yoshida in Hawaii on the way to San Francisco. Gromyko was young(mid-right).
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Source: Pictorial Modern History: Postwar World and Japan Vol.11 (1955)
 
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Japan's first civilian passenger plane "Mokusei" operated by American pilots and Japanese stewardesses in the postwar. Its fate was tragic when crashed in Mt. Mihara of the Oshima Island near Tokyo on April 9, 1952. Cause was said the altitude instruction error in the bad weather.

Martin 202 for Mokusei
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Source: Pictorial Modern History: Postwar World and Japan Vol.11 (1955)

Mokusei flew Tokyo-Osaka-Fukuoka
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Drama "Air Girl" in 2021
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Japan's first civilian passenger plane "Mokusei" operated by American pilots and Japanese stewardesses in the postwar. Its fate was tragic when crashed in Mt. Mihara of the Oshima Island near Tokyo on April 9, 1952. Cause was said the altitude instruction error in the bad weather.

Martin 202 for Mokusei
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Source: Pictorial Modern History: Postwar World and Japan Vol.11 (1955)

Mokusei flew Tokyo-Osaka-Fukuoka
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Drama "Air Girl" in 2021
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That last photo shows overhead bins with no doors. I bet that did not last long as luggage falling from bins has caused many injuries.

Great flashback though
 
Camp Commander Detained by POWs.
- Geoje Island Incident in Korea, 1952

Korean Armistice Talks looked reached agreement after many difficulties but faced another hurdle on March 8, 1952 when UN forces rejected the "exchange of all prisoners of both sides" which was agreed a month earlier.

Two months later in May, a strange but serious incident happened in the Geoje Island located in the southern sea of the Korean peninsula. Almost 80,000 North Korean and Chinese prisoners of war were held on this island. On May 7, they had detained the camp commander General Dodd and this was the 3rd time they caused trouble in the camp following February and March. UN forces stormed into the camp on the 10th and let POWs release Gen. Dodd after a huge scuffle.

UN forces entering the camp (upper). UN soldiers coming out of the camp after suppression (lower)
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NK POWs on the camp roofs with their national flags (upper). Artillery bombardment on the camp (lower)
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Source: Pictorial Modern History: Postwar World and Japan Vol.12 (1955)
 

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