AIR BLOWS WRECK 9 JAPANESE SHIPS IN ENEMY WATERS (7/8/45)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 7/8/45 | W.H. Lawrence, Lindesay Parrott, Mrs. Vera Chang Wang, Raymond Daniell, Gladwin Hill, Clifton Daniel

[colorado tanker]

You got that right, brother.

The Battalion did get a Presidential Unit Citation, which is pretty good recognition.

[henkster]

The Japanese would have been happy to incorporate radar into ships and early air warning. They lacked a sophisticated electronics industry to actually make the equipment. So too did the Germans; they could not have duplicated the proximity fuze in quantity even if they wanted to.

The Japanese existing industrial plant was stretched beyond its limits by the strain of war. They had no excess capacity to develop an electronics industry on the run.

[central_va]

The Japanese would have been happy to incorporate radar into ships and early air warning.

Their ships had fairly decent radar after 1942. Why the IJ Army could incorporate that into AAA defense of homeland earlier is still another mystery.

Japanese Radar Equipment in WWII

[untenured]

Not surprising I suppose that American women are much more opposed than American men to American occupation soldiers in Germany having “dates with German girls.”

[untenured]

As was hinted at upthread, rapid Chinese economic development has already caused many Chinese to implicitly demand higher wages by quitting their jobs and moving to better ones. (Coastal China is now a fairly high-cost manufacturing area.)

As for pollution, there are now routinely large demonstrations in protest against planned factories that threaten environmental damage, and a number of public campaigns and campaigners against environmental damage. The authorities try to suppress it, but not terribly effectively.