Picture of the Day - Miscellaneous (2 Viewers)

[Viking1066]

Mitsubishi A5M2bs of 12th Ku 1939 KAGE

 

[Viking1066]

RAAF Hawker Demons 3Sqn A1-30 & A1-42 at Nandowra aerodrome Scone NSW Australia ASBIZ

 

[Shinpachi]

I can't find Alec Guinness in any of these…?

One thing I noticed in the movie was that British engineers did not design the bridge in fact.

Final nail to connect the line

Source: History of Showa-era (一億人の昭和史・日本の戦史 8・太平洋戦争 2)(Dec.1978)

 

[Zippythehog]

One thing I noticed in the movie was that British engineers did not design the bridge in fact.

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Final nail to connect the line
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Source: History of Showa-era (一億人の昭和史・日本の戦史 8・太平洋戦争 2)(Dec.1978)

I would not have thought that POW engineers would be allowed to.

Perhaps the writers struggled, unconsciously, with vestigial hubris?

 

[Shinpachi]

I would not have thought that POW engineers would be allowed to.

Perhaps the writers struggled, unconsciously, with vestigial hubris?

Frankly, I do not know how they felt abou the historical incident to produce the movie in the 1950s but know that it took more than thirty years for the survivors to reconcile. I am not in the position to commit myself

On October 25, 1976, survivors from both sides reconciled on the bridge of Kwai.

Takashi Nagase with Stan Willner at Yokohama Port ca. 1976

Source: The Bridge on the River Kwai - Myth and Reality (1986)
by former IJA interpreter Takashi Nagase

 

[Wurger]