[katana]

I remember reading in one book about Midway this quote by a Japanese officer on the bridge of one of their ships, later used in the movie where it sounded contrived and made up: "These pilots die like Samurai!"

Most Japanese who may have visited or attended college in the US before the war never made it east of California and the rest based their opinions on Hollywood films. Few if any ever met a mean ass Alabama Bubba or had any inkling of what individual(istic) American warriors or our collective organizational and productive genius, harnessed to unimaginable resources, were capable of.

But they learned.

[Monterrosa-24]

“...Few if any ever met a mean ass Alabama Bubba...”

Or as Richard Pryor put it, “What were the Japanese thinking?...they only knew of California White People...they didn’t know about the kind of White people in Alabama that have to be kept chained-up in the basement...”

[Inyo-Mono]

Few if any ever met a mean ass Alabama Bubba or had any inkling of what individual(istic) American warriors or our collective organizational and productive genius, harnessed to unimaginable resources, were capable of.

And many of those were the grandsons of Confederate soldiers who fought so hard in the War between the States. I know, my Father was one of those at Midway.