WWII Photographs...Has anyone seen these before?

11/15/2010 | Myself

[magslinger]

Especially before helicopters were common. That is why it’s so rare today, helicopters are a safer way to handle personnel transfers.

[rlmorel]

These were from the USS Missouri...

[rlmorel]

LOL...I tried the same thing. I will say, I have indeed seen it before somewhere.

[Jane Long]

Thanks for posting. Very cool.

[buccaneer81]

The only event in the 20th century history of the United States that equals 2 September 1945 is 20 July 1969.

Nothing else was ever close.

[SunkenCiv]

thanks for the ping! And WOW to the detective work in this great thread! Since there weren’t many scenes of formal surrender by the Japanese, because they fought until incapacitated or killed, the best guess is, the surrender scene was due to the overall national surrender announced by Emperor Hirohito, thus the scene was somewhere such as Okinawa where the Japanese were still fighting at the end.

[rlmorel]

[correctthought]

Awesome!, Thanks for sharing these.

[rlmorel]

Funny, I have had these pictures for a few years, and while cleaning the other day, I came across them and took a closer look at them.

Interesting stuff, indeed.

[rlmorel]

Folks, this is the epitome of the digital world working as it should. Think of what this process would have been like just 25 years ago.

Then, if I had these photos and was curious about them, there would be a lot of phone calls, letters, visits to libraries, etc. A long process.

Not that the phone calls, library research and so on aren’t good, they are.

This is just much more efficient. Like having a group brainstorm, each of us with access to data that we can access and analyze, and collaborate on. Theories are advanced and discarded.

It is as if instead of having one person with a large hammer working on breaking up a boulder, there were dozens working at it with chisels.

I find this fascinating.

[Kickass Conservative]

George H.W. Bush flew and was shot down in an Avenger. His two crew mates were KIA.

[xp38]

I asked someone from Missouri about the battleship used for that ceremony and they said remember who was President at the time.

[rlmorel]

You know, it is strange. I just looked at the fourth picture down, of the plane smashing into the others.

There is a guy with his back to the camera in the catwalk, looking up.

As I considered how dangerous that area was, with huge pieces of torn metal flying in all directions, I saw for a split second in my mind, just what that one twisted piece of metal traveling at that speed could do to a human body.

For an instant when I realized that, I felt as if I were the guy with his back to the camera. And I could feel, if only for a fraction of a second, that black terror that would make you dive into the smallest corner you could find and try to compress your body into it to avoid the shards of metal.

I only felt a pang of that terror, a flash of it so small that it came and went before I realized it. But I felt it.

I cannot imagine what the guy in the picture must have felt.

[When do we get liberated?]

If you are made of Nomex, and dont need oxygen you might live. Otherwise he gave his life for the world I grew up in

[rlmorel]

LOL, I bet they do.

[When do we get liberated?]

I had to pull the photo and check that side to side with yours. The wakes are VERY similar, but not exact and I assume the same boat in the same ocean would make a similar wake. But there are fewer people on deck in the stock photo. Very likely the same boat, but not a rotated version of this photo.

[andyk]

Neato thread, thanks for sharing.

[FlyVet]

For me, I can't imagine what they went through. I'd have to be there. My uncle on the Enterprise spoke glowingly of his positive experiences, but avoided the grizzly. My grandfather, who was in the trenches east of Paris during WW I, said little. They didn't like to talk about it. I don't blame them.

They'd have probably have opened up to those who went through similar things, but for the rest of us, nunna our bidness.

[WhiskeyX]

U.S.S. Nehenta Bay was assigned to Task Force 44, the Northern Honshu & Hokkaido Surrender Force, under the command of Vice Admiral Jack Fletcher, Commander North Pacific (COMNORPAC). The task force arrived at Ominato Guard District in Mutsu Bay, Honshu on 7 September 1945, and U.S.S. Panamint AGC-17 met a Japanese delegation offshore on September 8th to prepare for the entry of the U.S.S. Panamint and the task force through the minefields and into into the Japanese 5th Fleet anchorage and naval base at Ominato Naval Base. The ceremony for the surrender of Honshu and Hokkaido Islands occurred on the deck of the U.S.S. Panamint on September 9th.

[unkus]

Awesome. Thank you very much.