Posted on 07/31/2015 4:59:05 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
Helicopters seen as aid to combat
http://www.helis.com/database/org/us_united_states_coast_guard/History/
In one sense I am stunned to read this, because at least since I believed in 1977--not so much before--this respect for individual dignity is now such a very fundamental and foundational element in my own worldview. Yet in another sense I'm not a bit surprised, not after seeing the casual atrocities and cold indifference to life exhibited by the Japanese. I'm largely ignorant of their culture, and I think I've learned more about it in the last couple of weeks through your incisive explanations than the sum of what I previously knew.
But there is another reason why I'm not surprised, and you expressed it well: it is from the God of the Bible. Although I'm not exposed to much Japanese culture, I am inevitably immersed in a post-Christian American culture which exhibits in and even glories in that same constant quest for the aggrandizement of personal power at the expense of all--and anyone--else.
The British monitors were basically destroyer sized ships with a single battleship turret mounted on them. (2 15” guns). They had two left over from WWI (one lost off north Africa) and built another 2 in WWII. While one of the new ones was to be deployed to the Pacific, it didn’t reach the theater before the end of the war.
I believe they used a monitor to sink this ship(click on link at page):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_K%C3%B6nigsberg_(1905)
There is a great book about it.
The Alaska class was officially designated “Large Cruisers,” and carried the classification CB, as opposed to CA for Heavy Cruisers and BC for Battlecruisers. Personally, I think they were a lot closer to Battlecruisers than Heavy Cruisers. There were still Battleships like Arkansas and Texas in the Navy that sported 12” guns. The armor protection was much like that of a cruiser, but the 28,000 ton displacement was closer to the 35,000 ton treaty limit than it was to the Baltimore class heavy cruiser.
In any event, it’s hard to say what the Alaskas were.
Beautiful
Obsolete
Superfluous
They all apply.
If you notice any of the Star Trek episodes where Sulu was part of a landing party on a planet, he was always bringing up the rear.
You said it, FRiend.
That takes me back . . .
Yes, although that class of monitor had only 6” main guns, which weren’t really much bigger than those found on World War II destroyers.
That damnfool seems to think it's good policy to show the back of his hand to our allies and appease our enemies. He's doing it in Asia just like he is in the Middle East.
If this keeps up Japan and Korea will have to consider acquiring nuclear weapons, just as Saudi Arabia will.
That's gotta be a war crime.
As you were saying . . .
My late father once told me that, on the Green Hornet radio show, Kato was Japanese until Pearl Harbor Day, when he suddenly (without comment) became Filipino.
LOL
In the 1936 premiere of the radio program, Kato was presented as being Japanese. By 1939, the invasion of China by the Empire of Japan made this bad for public relations, and from that year until 1945 "Britt Reid's Japanese valet" in the show's opening was then simply identified by the announcer as his "faithful valet." The first of Universal's two movie serials, produced in 1939 but not released to theaters until early 1940, referred in passing to Kato being "a Korean". By 1941, Kato had begun to be referred to as Filipino. A long-standing, but false, urban legend maintained that the switch from one to the other occurred immediately after the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor. In recent years, there has been a growing but equally erroneous belief that Kato was initially said to be a Filipino of Japanese ancestry.
Wonder if they ever got a new one?
As an aside did anyone else notice the article at the bottom of the first page just left of center re: Army takes over B-29 tire plant in Detroit after 17-day strike?
It’s so comforting to know that even back then union scumbags were working against this once great country...
That’s what I need is a personal valet, and I’m not really particular where he’s from.
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