Post-war Jets in service 10-30 years after WWII
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Ummmmm....
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
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chipieal
Airman
Since no one can ever be certain of whether a posting is "tongue in cheek" or not I have to ask - is this person for real? I do not believe any of the manufacturing power houses of that region could exist without our and the European Markets.
GreenKnight121
Senior Airman
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- Mar 16, 2014
Um... you are aware that this thread is about World War 2 fighters in the Asian combat theatre, right?
And you do know that XBe02Drvr's post is a quote of slogans used by the Japanese during WW2?
And that the goal of Japan was to conquer all of Asia and the Pacific islands, removing European & American social and economic influences, and creating a self-sufficient Asian economic bloc?
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Promoted by Japan as "The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere".
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Yeah, the title and the first post are off in two different directions.
Kind of reminded me of some of the posts I made after my wreck - those painkillers made for interesting conversation
Kind of reminded me of some of the posts I made after my wreck - those painkillers made for interesting conversation
I assure you that yes, I live and breathe, don't live under a bridge, and don't have to worry about Billy goats gruff. And yes, my cheek has rather a large bulge in it.
My family has had a connection to Japan going back a century and a quarter. My paternal great grandfather was director of the Universalist missionary network in Japan in the 1890s and early 1900s, and my grandfather was born and raised in Tokyo. My maternal grandfather was a disciple of my great granddad, and my mother and her sisters were born and raised in Shizuoka. My mother's younger sister spent her career in the US foreign service at posts all over Asia. The paradoxes of East and West are no strangers here, and I sometimes delight in playing devil's advocate. No offense intended.
This is exactly the Caucasian-centered "colonialist" attitude that Asians, especially Japanese, and now, Chinese, resent and want to eradicate. Let's face it, from a resource standpoint, there's no reason an organized and unified "Asiazone" couldn't compete successfully with the Eurozone and the American Empire if they could only gain control of their own resources and free them from Western corporate exploitation. China's already busy building economic colonization in Africa and Latin America. Anybody remember "1984"?? For you youngsters, Google George Orwell.
Cheers,
Wes
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Hats off to you for the fortitude to even be online at all under the circumstances! A tribute to your determination. (Or perhaps addiction?)Kind of reminded me of some of the posts I made after my wreck - those painkillers made for interesting conversation
Cheers,
Wes
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
Thanks and no addiction, though it was tempting.
I had a Buick Century come into my lane and hit my Scion head-on. She was doing 60mph and I was doing 50mph, which meant catastrophic consequences.
I suffered a broken left Talus, fractured 5th Cervical vertebrae, seven broken ribs, split Sternum, dislocated left shoulder, shattered left collarbone, collapsed lungs, punctured left lung, massive subdural hematomas and nerve damage.
Which can also be applied to this forum - my Surgeon said that the profile of my broken Talus is typically seen in car racing and aircraft incidents.
So with this in mind, the combined energy of my wreck was comparable to hitting a solid object at roughly 110mph...or like a pilot setting down a damaged plane (wheels up) and surviving...the only difference, is that I had airbags going off all over the place - the pilots didn't, so they had the gunsight, bottom edge of the instrument console, trim-wheel, rudder stirrups and other sharp-pointy things to contend with.
Gives a whole new respect to those guys who were able to bring their damaged crates down and walk away.
Wow! Welcome back from the precipice!
Glider
Captain
I hate saying it but there is a lot of truth in this. Our leaders at the time gave the best to the western front, the leftovers to the middle east and the scrapings off the floor to the Far East until the war in Europe was almost certain to be over.
Lord Mountbatten summed this up when addressing the Army in the Far East. They were complaining that they were the forgotten Army, he honestly said to them that they were not the forgotten army, because no one had heard of them yet.
I am no fan of Mountbatten but that did sum it up pretty well
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