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Offline Bombardy

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« on: July 17, 2006, 04:04:41 AM »
My fiancee is Japanese, and in addition to all the great things you get when you are involved with a Japanese women (really!) are the snippets of things from "the other side" regarding WW2, which are totally fascinating.  I can tell you 2 things:

A) they teach history of WW2 totally differently than what you would find american highschools - although it's not too far off perspectives in college courses.

B) Never ever dispute what they say, who can be sure who's right?

Okay, so the Fiancee used to live in DC and give tours of the air and space museum to visiting Japanese - and along the tour she would take them to the A6M and say:

"This is the A6M Zero which was the most advanced fighter in WW2 until the Americans caputred one and copied it's technology and made improvements"

Slightly slanted eh? at first I recoiled at her description...... then I remembered that the US had been cowering the pacific islands in hopes of finding an intact example for analysis and the F6F's design included specifications that were the result of the data collected from a captured A6M

I was just about to tell her something along the lines of "wait a sec,  the F4U-1 was designed before the capture of an A6M and I routinely *power* PWN Zero's in the MA with it" but....... I let it go

tune in next week when I will pose the question "who started WW2?" to the the Fiancee......
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Offline B@tfinkV

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« Reply #1 on: July 17, 2006, 05:02:43 AM »
:lol
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Offline StarOfAfrica2

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« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2006, 05:55:43 AM »
Trust me, its not an argument you will win.  Even if you manage to prove you are right, you'll end up wishing you had the sense to just keep your mouth shut and nod your head.  Choose your battles wisely.  Some victories are not worth the cost.
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Offline -sudz-

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Re: This week's most interesting comment from my Japanese Fiancee
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2006, 09:50:55 AM »
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tune in next week when I will pose the question "who started WW2?" to the the Fiancee......


I love hearing the other side.  What does she make of Midway?
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Offline Mustaine

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« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2006, 10:20:49 AM »
Dont forget the zero was based at least partly on the howard hughes design.
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Offline Soulyss

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« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2006, 10:45:41 AM »
I think the idea that the F6F was designed based on the tests conducted on a captured A6M are false... I don't have the book in front of me but I believe the F6F prototype was flown before the A6M was found in the Aleutians. I don't think any signifigant design changes were made to the prototype after that.
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Offline Saxman

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« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2006, 11:02:26 AM »
Mustaine: I'd read that that, too, was a myth.
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« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2006, 11:05:16 AM »
"tune in next week when I will pose the question "who started WW2?" to the the Fiancee...... "

"A peaceful Japanese fishing fleet was brutally attacked while in international waters off coast of the Hawaii. For some unknown reason, the rest of the world then attacked Japan and dropped bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killing approximately 2.6 billion people."
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Offline eh

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« Reply #8 on: July 17, 2006, 01:10:19 PM »
^^^^^^^
What Star of Africa said.
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Offline TheThang

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« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2006, 01:48:16 PM »
Thats grand, but yeah. Never argue about that kind of thing, you may win, but you will regret it
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Offline Raptor

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« Reply #10 on: July 17, 2006, 02:07:15 PM »
The F6F was designed to counter the zero, which is why I believe it did not serve long after the war like the Corsair coninued to serve into the Korean War.
You could get her to look at planes such as the P38, which was designed in 1939 and held the highest K/D ratio for any USAAC fighter. See what she thinks about that plane (without trying to prove you are right to her).


You should register as axis for Operation Downfall and let her watch, the key is YOU must fly Japanese or she may get mad:lol
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« Reply #11 on: July 17, 2006, 02:11:01 PM »
if you intend on having a peaceful and fruitful domestic life then the best advice I've heard on this topic was given by C3PO to R2D2 and that was "let the wookie win"  sage advise I often wish I had applied it more at home.
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« Reply #12 on: July 17, 2006, 02:23:47 PM »


the A-17 kinda reminds me of the ijn planes .
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Offline StarOfAfrica2

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« Reply #13 on: July 17, 2006, 02:48:15 PM »
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You should register as axis for Operation Downfall and let her watch, the key is YOU must fly Japanese or she may get mad:lol



Hehe

Raptor, when I went to the site to sign up for the scenario, I had every intention of signing up to fly for the IJN, hoping to get a ride in a Ki-61.

Of course when I saw the layout it was absolutely impossible.  I had to fly for VF-17.  Honor demanded it.  

My wife was sitting next to me in our office, fiddling with something on her computer, and when I told her I signed up for the US side she just shook her head and said "Why, you have a deathwish?"

I'm not quite sure still if she meant during the scenario or for real.  Japanese may be quiet about their national pride, but dont mistake that for pacifism lol.  Meanwhile I'm being VEEEEEERRY nice to her until this is over.  :noid ;)
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Offline AutoPilot

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« Reply #14 on: July 17, 2006, 03:42:59 PM »
Trivia:

Where was the first A6m found that they gathered their info from?
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