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Posted on 10/01/2011 8:22:13 PM PDT by hocndoc
Rare photo indeed. Now in my archives.
That’s the first photo I’ve ever seen of Japanese troops wearing a Brody-type helmet.
This doesn’t mention Governor Perry directly, but I do talk about the election.
I’m little bit proud of the fact that I can now post pictures, even if it’s because of a built in WordPress feature.
I’ve added some lines to the post that I had written here on FR:
“The fence only works where there are frequent patrols and response from near by. It does not work if there’s no one to respond to breaches.
“A fence is straight, the river curves back and forth. So, they build it inside the border, not on the border, giving up land that is US soil.
“In the meantime, they cut off homes from the rest of the State, they deprive Texas farmers and ranchers their rightful access to their own property and to their water rights. This not only leaves wide swaths of the United States outside of normal defense, it makes it more expensive to run the farms, the ranches, and even regular households.”
Great point, didn’t notice ... something to add to my description of the photo.
“I had just read that some wanted to build a similar wall all along our Rio Grande, and had even read one candidate, Herman Cain, wanted to build our own version of “The Great Wall of China.”
It wasn’t for lack of a wall that China lost much of her land to Japan. It was the lack of men and materials to defend the wall.”
I think that if we were facing hundreds of Mexican TANKS Mr. Cain would not be calling for a “Great Wall” as our prime defense.
As to why China lost - that was OBVIOUS, they were BACKWARDS, back then. Walls stopped being effective for defense one the rifled barrel (for cannon) was developed...in the 1800s, I believe. Trying to use WW2 and China’s wall to make fun of Cain is a pretty disgusting.
How about trying to use Israel’s wall? Oh wait, that one WORKS GREAT.
Here’s another.
http://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=7743
is that the same helmet?
Here’s the source (and I’m adding it to the WingRight post)
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma04/wood/mot/html/japan.htm
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I did some looking since it was a new one on me. Check out this link. Apparently they used that type of helmet for a while in the 1920s.
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=86026
Wow....never knew this.
All that wasted writing for a thinly disguised open border thread. LOL
That was my first thought too-those don’t look like Japanese helmets. The other thing I noticed is that the rifles you can see look much smaller than the usual Japanese infantry weapons.
Very cool - thank you for posting.
The Israeli wall works because it’s manned and patrolled.
I think that’s a Type 32 in your photo. Standard WW2 issue.
Should have gone down to end before I posted. That is the same kind of helmet in the wall photo. And the rifles are smaller too, or maybe it’s that they don’t have the bayonets mounted.
Israel’s wall doesn’t work particularly well.
“Israel’s wall doesn’t work particularly well.”
Maybe you didn’t follow the news a decade ago when suicide bombings were happening every couple of weeks, killing dozens of people each time, which was why they built the wall.
Do you hear about these suicide bombings now in Israel? Once that wall was built, the problem was gone.
“The Israeli wall works because it’s manned and patrolled.”
No problem with that.
“All that wasted writing for a thinly disguised open border thread. LOL”
No kidding, and a crappy one at that.
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