Author Topic: Happy VJ Day (Read 574 times)

Raptor · « **on:** August 15, 2005, 01:13:00 AM »

Happy VJ Day

Skydancer · « **Reply #1 on:** August 15, 2005, 03:02:33 AM »

Yep even the Japanese, after they had a while to get used to it turned out quite happy! Pity it all had to get messy in a war. Couldn't they have just achieved world domination in consumer goods in the first place!

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #2 on:** August 15, 2005, 03:11:25 AM »

If we were all peaceful in the WW2 years, this game would really suck.

Skydancer · « **Reply #3 on:** August 15, 2005, 03:15:30 AM »

yeah you have a point!:aok

rpm · « **Reply #4 on:** August 15, 2005, 03:40:44 AM »

Happy VJ Day. My Dad fought across the Pacific running Higgins boats (LCVP's) and LST's landing Marines at Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima in the Coast Guard.

Charon · « **Reply #5 on:** August 15, 2005, 09:16:05 AM »

My Grandfather served on the amphibious command ship USS Ancon, from the beginning to the end. He was off shore at most major invasions in the Med/ETO and the latter ones in the Pacific, and got to "meet" most of the major commanders. He thought Bradley and Halsey were the most down to earth.

He served in the laundry, made moonshine and drank it to help steady his nerves, experienced U-boat, glide bomb and kamakizi attacks and helped ram shells and powder into a 5" gun like the strong, West Virginia coal miner he was.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-a/agc4.htm

Charon

midnight Target · « **Reply #6 on:** August 15, 2005, 09:21:18 AM »

Father-in-law made 3 landings including a first wave at Bouganville. The other 2 were Gaudalcanal and the re-taking of Guam. He got his purple heart on Guam. He's 80 now and still a scary tough as nails Marine.

Happy VJ day.

Chairboy · « **Reply #7 on:** August 15, 2005, 09:41:43 AM »

Happy VJ day! My hat goes off to JJ Jackson, A. Curry, "Downtown" J. Brown, C. Daly, Kennedy, and the rest of those who tirelessely told us not to dream it's over, what to do when the going gets tough, and reported in harrowing detail what happened to the radio star.

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DREDIOCK · « **Reply #8 on:** August 15, 2005, 06:43:41 PM »

Father in law was in the navy and served in the pacific in WWII
late 42-end of the war.

Was on the ship next to the USS Missouri when the surrender was signed in Tokyo Bay
Had a front row seat and got to witness it first hand

1K3 · « **Reply #9 on:** August 15, 2005, 06:50:34 PM »

Rolex · « **Reply #10 on:** August 15, 2005, 07:30:50 PM »

Surprisingly, Skydancer, the Japanese don't look at it as you imagine.

Once again, peoples image from media of a people and place they don't know, is just flat-out wrong.

Only 43% of Japanese think the war was a mistake. Notice how young these guys are in this photo from a few days ago at Yasukuni.

BUG_EAF322 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 16, 2005, 12:01:51 AM »

Saw a documentairy on national geographic about okinawa.

Damn hard place to be.
a very cruel place.

being captured wasnt nice.

Salute to them who faced those dangers.

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #12 on:** August 16, 2005, 12:04:52 AM »

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Originally posted by Rolex
Only 43% of Japanese think the war was a mistake. Notice how young these guys are in this photo from a few days ago at Yasukuni.

But how many of that 43% were around during and right after the war?

Rolex · « **Reply #13 on:** August 16, 2005, 02:30:05 AM »

Age 70 and over: 37% thought is was a mistake and 45% thought it was inevitable.

lazs2 · « **Reply #14 on:** August 16, 2005, 08:51:34 AM »

rolex... I have no doubt that very few japs think the war was a mistake or that they did anything wrong in the war.

I have no doubt that if they were in a position to that they would wage war in very much the same moral way that they did in the past. I would not like to be around in a country they were invading.

lazs