Posted on 11/15/2010 8:08:42 PM PST by rlmorel
I was at my in-laws some time ago, and they brought out a bunch of boxes with images in them. We were looking over the family pictures, and I saw this small stack wrapped in brown paper. When I opened it, I found prints of the six images below. When I asked my mother-in-law where they came from, she said that she had worked at a drugstore in East Boston as a teenager in the mid to late forties. People brought film in to be developed all the time, and never came back to pick it up. They held onto some of them for years before they threw them out. She said she grabbed them with a bunch of other pictures as they were being thrown in the trash during an long-needed cleanup at the store. These were prints from what were probably original negatives I would guess.
What I found most interesting was the surrender scene. All this time I had it, I just assumed it was another angle from the Missouri Surrender ceremony, but when you really look at it, it isn't. There are no civilians, the weather is wrong and the ship looks older than the Missouri. Has anyone ever seen any of these images? Comments? I am very well versed on WWII history particularly in the Pacific Theater, and I don't recall ever seeing these pictures in any books I have ever read.
Should read:
...all happening within a massive, thundering bowelful of Democrats ready to celebrate, and to rumble."
On a scale of 1-10, that ranks 11 on the coolness scale.
Like minded people here on FR...I think the poster at #95 said it best...people here CARE about history, because we realize how important it is to remember it and the lessons it teaches us...:)
Really glad you liked them!
And, by the way...thanks for your service, shipmate!
I found some pictures of my dad from the war. It showed a cocky 22 year old doing a quick draw with his 45. It also showed his AA gun and a quad 50 halftrack.
It is a shame that these men are passing, often without really telling their stories. Some were just cooks, or drivers. Others were soldiers who seen the hell of that war. All have a story.
Exactly. I try to keep that in mind when I meet someone of that generation, because you just don’t know.
Thank you for your service.
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Thanks, whomever figured that out, and great work!
No kidding, I was impressed...
My sincere thanks and the same to you.
My father was a brown shoe, he started out as the tail gunner in bi-plane dive bombers before WW2 then ended up as the flight engineer on PBYs.
It freaked me out as a kid when he told me how that every time that they made “the turn”, both of them, (the gunner and the pilot), blacked out. They never knew if they’d wake up or not. EVERY time.
God Bless America!
God Bless the Fleet!
Yep, when you are keeping station near a bird farm you best be on your toes.
My division, (Fox), ran the midship high line. You make a mistake doing that people are maimed for life if they are lucky, otherwise they are dead.
Loss of steerage is a bad deal. So is letting the messenger hit the water when it’s half way out, no division on earth can hold it once it gets wet. It’s freaky how fast a line can cut through a leather glove and human flesh. Heck you can get burnt so badly you can’t use your hands if you don’t drop it fast enough, and that’s through a leather glove.
The trick is training and paying attention. It’s a real feat to get twenty or so sailors on a line to drop it and step away in one action together. But ... that’s what it takes.
We didn’t like vertreps even though it was less work for us. We had to really hustle to clear our tiny helo deck, and none of us liked working directly under the d@mned things.
Photo No.2 is definitely a CVE, not a CVL. Look at the bow. The CVL bow in your photo extends past the end of the flight deck and has a twin 40mm mount. Note also the four stacks aft of the island. CVE has none of these features.
I believe the Japanese Northern Fleet surrender photo was taken aboard the USS Panamint AGC-13 at Mutsu Bay
This was a great thread to read...there were a lot of people finding and adding information, including that tidbit you volunteered...:)
Thats why just about everyone I knew from WWII and Korea—my Dad, uncles, neighbors, etc. all belonged to an American Legion or VFW post or some sort of Vets organization.
It seems that going to the Legion or VFW to drink when I was a kid was the thing for those guys to do. They would sit in there and drink and play cards, and sit, and drink, and sit.
I see more of those organizations closing their doors today. Membership is, unfortunately down.
Japanese surrender on USS Panamint, under command of Admiral Jack Fletcher.
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