Posted on 07/02/2015 4:42:57 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Watch for Takasagu Maru in the news during the next two weeks.
the latest in consumer electronics, the television. His favorite (only) son will wait until ‘54 to be born.
Asylum at Kaufbeuren, Swabia
From the above and worthy of thought:
1) The evil continued for over 2 months while our troops were there within rifle shot. Disease notice kept them out until July 2nd.
2) “For large numbers of the children of Europe who had escaped Richard Jenne’s fate, life was far removed from the norm. In every liberated nation wild, streetwise groups attached themselves to troop formations and scrounged for food. “
Hard to imagine the street kids attached to troop formations. What would we think if there?
3).... “Hermann Rauschning, an early colleague, quoted Hitler as stating:
I know perfectly well…that in the scientific sense there is no such thing as race. But you, as a farmer and cattle breeder, cannot get your breeding successfully achieved without the conception of race. And I as a politician need a conception which enables the order which has hitherto existed on historic bases to be abolished and an entirely and new anti-historic order enforced and given an intellectual basis…And for this purpose the conception of race serves me well… With the conception of race, National Socialism will carry the revolution abroad and re-cast the world (iii). “
And race is still being used today for politics. Even admitted that race is not scientific, but the concept is important......................
The family story is that my newlywed parents had a bed, two orange crates to sit on, and a TV my father had built. It was supposed to be the only one on the block, though I guess that changed after a while.
The earliest television I remember was a huge console in our suburban living room around 1960; by that time my father had gone through a few TV-related jobs before becoming an electronics technician at the Philly Naval Base. In '62 we got our first color TV, an RCA console. It was in '67 that we moved to Japan, when my father got a three-year contract to work at Yokosuka Naval Base; we took the console with us.
Until 9/11 when I learned what it was like to hate a scurrilous attacking enemy, I never understood what it took for my father to live in Japan and work among the people who had been his sworn enemies only a generation earlier. But he gave his lifetime protecting America from its sworn enemies, even when those enemies reversed positions and he had to work with the former enemies against what had supposedly been the former friends.
Oh, and we didn't call it a "chemical mortar" or have chemical weapons to fire.
The German U-Boat sailors who survived the War were pretty darn lucky.
Wasn’t the 4.2” mortar referred to as a “Chemical Mortar?” Was it desgined to project gas rounds, and remained administratively under the Chemical branch?
In WWII, however, they were referred to as chemical mortars and had been developed for that purpose. It just so happened it was also really good at firing HE and WP rounds.
Seeing the Aussie landing reminds me of something I’ve long wondered: was there ever a serious, realistic threat of Japan actually invading Australia?
The reason we landed at Guadalcanal was to stop the Japanese invasion of the Solomons for the purpose of flanking and cutting supply lines to Australia.
So, the Allied fear was very real. Now, did the Japanese actually have a plan to invade Australia? I've never heard they got that far.
Thanks. My understanding is that Australia’s population largely resides in the south, which seemingly would have made it all the more difficult for Japan to extend its reach that far, especially when it had so many other fronts ongoing and occupying its attention and resources.
Ten thousand recruit sailors celebrate Catholic Mass given by the Bishop of Rochester NY.
He gave an uplifting sermon. In short, kill Japs.
After Coral Sea and Midway the IJN didn't have the capability to take on an operation that massive.
Still, the Australians were really fearful when the Japanese took Malaya and Singapore - and much of their army was in North Africa.
Thanks again. I hadn’t even realized that the Aussies were helping out overseas, but of course they would have been.
I would hasten to add it was harshly criticized at the time for being unduly alarmist.
Scared the heck outta me!
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