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.
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.
Well, you chose a forum full of people that love America and respect the history and traditions of this country. I wonder what would have happened had you posted these to DU and asked for help identifying what they were? "Symbols of American imperialism!" and "Useless relics of an irrelevant past that has been swept into the dustbin of history by the advent of the postmodern, post-american new reality of blah blah blah..."
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