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Title: Caption it! (part V)
Post by: Blinder on July 30, 2014, 04:40:37 PM
(https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xfa1/t1.0-9/10541478_745362562195528_7603141804094577202_n.jpg)

The ORIGINAL text messaging system!

Title: Re: Caption it! (part V)
Post by: DubiousKB on July 30, 2014, 04:58:56 PM
Carrier pigeons were not making it home, a new delivery method was devised....
Title: Re: Caption it! (part V)
Post by: Volron on July 30, 2014, 05:05:17 PM
Even during WW2, the US was kind enough to continue delivering messages to Japan.
Title: Re: Caption it! (part V)
Post by: HPriller on July 30, 2014, 06:45:48 PM
When the capn' fired up engine #2, the concept for Sit n' Spin was invented.
Title: Re: Caption it! (part V)
Post by: caldera on July 30, 2014, 06:59:08 PM
Before "Adopt-a-Highway", there was "Adopt-a-Bomb".
Title: Re: Caption it! (part V)
Post by: APDrone on July 30, 2014, 09:02:41 PM
Any chances that 'Tail End Charlie' dropped this?

(http://www.airmageddon.com/ClaimJumpers/burmashave.jpg)
Title: Re: Caption it! (part V)
Post by: GScholz on July 30, 2014, 09:53:15 PM
"Even though the Americans weren't officially Japanese allies, they nevertheless continued to deliver vast amounts of explosives, incendiaries and some rare heavy metals to the Japanese war industry."

(I'm going to hell for that one...)
Title: Re: Caption it! (part V)
Post by: Ripsnort on July 30, 2014, 10:16:48 PM
That must have been a pic from when the USA was first within reach of the Japanese mainland.
LeMay quickly switched to this type of incendiary bomb soon after we were within reach.
The results were 10 fold that of nukes.

(http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Bombers-Over-Japan-incendiary-bombs-B29.jpg)
(http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/ww2_19/s_w12_Tarumiza.jpg)
Title: Re: Caption it! (part V)
Post by: GScholz on July 31, 2014, 12:39:32 AM
Napalm for teh win! (Literally!)