Posted on 08/14/2012 5:30:44 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Let me know if you want on the 10 Things You Don't Know About PING list.
His other dog hand puppet was "Black Tooth", the meanest dog in Detroit.
"The fancy British mahony mahogany table brought..."
"When Emperor Hirohito announced over the radio the acceptance of the allied terms of surrender on August 15 (Tokyo time), very few Japanese listening to him understood what he was saying because he was using formal formal court language..."
I know, picky, picky...
The Japanese copy of the surrender documents were so upsetting to the men who signed that they ordered a lower level officer to carry them back to Tokyo. The documents were tucked away in a book shelf and forgotten until about two years ago.
“...at the last moment the clouds suddenly parted, as if in a Hollywood movie production, and the sun burst through allowing all aboard the U.S.S. Missouri to view the mightiest display of air power ever seen.”
Is there any surviving, known historical film of that, PJ-C?
One other little known fact about the surrender...the japanese didn't speak english all that well, and the americans didn't speak japanese that well, so it was conducted in Austrian.
Wow, here’s a pic of it, and the Wiki entry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Missouri-flyover.jpg
Wowzer!
Here’s the surrender ceremony, in color (no flyover, though):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5MMVd5XOK8
Thanks. I look forward to your next edition. Very interesting. I was 3 1/2 months old when the document was signed. I had to look to see if I had Soupy Sales as one of my Celebrities in Uniform and I did. Here’s the others I have compiled:
http://www.portcall24.com/Celebrities_In_Uniform.htm
Please add me to your TopTen ping list. Verrrry interesting facts and trivia.,
San kyu for posting this!
Ever see the Behind the Scenes video of the Christmas Special?
Thanks carriage_hill. My brother was born that day. I just sent him the link with subject: “The Day of Your Birth.” LOL.
“Wow, here’s a pic of it, and the Wiki entry:”
Yea, but we have lawyers and IPODs now, and handle conflict in video games. No need for that kind of a show of violence anymore. LOL.
and, of course, wwii didn’t really end till 1949 and thereafter; in ‘45 the new China Marines went directly to China to accept the surrender of Japanese troops there.....and ended up in combat w/the communist troops there, sometimes the marines were asisted by the Japanese troops, etc.
an era of history little publicized and unknown...
Semper Watching!
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Good one!
I was just going to post that...need to keep reminding people the “gems” from this poseur of a prez. The media would do that job if it came from a conservative.
Thanks!
addendum”
lotta great stories/history wrapped up with the new China marines, as with the old Pre—WWii China marines...I collected many writings on this for years on my own sites and forums...most of it still there, but nothing last forever on the net...???
Semper china Marines!
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Welcome aboard, PINGEE #11.
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