Posted on 06/20/2021 5:09:40 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Just watch this episode yesterday. Never knew what the Japs did to the others and was sick when I heard what happened.
Mr Ballen is one of the best on Youtube.
Thanks for posting. I’m going to read this.
It’s funny that you posted this, because I watched this video this morning. I’m subscribed to Mr. Ballen and am a big fan of his storytelling.
This story was a hard listen because of its subject matter.
Good luck with that. A lot of people probably still want to wipe out any and all males north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
#2. Bush was not captured. As I recall from the book, he was rescued by a flying boat. His gunner was KIA.
Also many US captured pilots were either shot on the spot or reportedly put in chains tied to cement blocks, etc and thrown off of Jap ships or subs.
Never apologize for Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
My father got his 3rd Purple Heart on Iwo. Payback’s a bitch and it was our twin bitches who ended the war and actually saved a potential million military and civilian lives, including friends of mine who were sailing towards Japan for the final invasion.
I had the good fortune to actually kiss the fuselage of the Enola Gay when it was being restored at (I think the correct name was) the Garber Restoration Facility in Suitland, Md. (There were two govt restoration facilities apparently ran by the Garber operation).
I was with a friend of mine, an F-4 pilot who almost got nailed by a SAM missile that somehow went by him instead of staying locked on his tail exhaust engine. An F-4 was there for restoration as well as a full SAM missile.
For old aircraft/engine aficionados, I found an Allison V-1710 slant engine at Garber, which I needed to inspect for a legal environmental case I was working on for the Govt. I think there was also an advanced V3260 or similar designation engine there (GM, Allison etc).
Talk about a “toy” collection. I didn’t want to leave!!!
There are antipsychotic drugs for that.
Do you really think Japanese mariners kept piles of cement blocks on board their subs?
And JFK and Reagan would have had less bullets inside them.
Not necessarily on their subs but they could have gotten them when they seized Guam (and killed 90 American civilian construction workers in a massacre on the beach) or other Allied facilities. Rocks will do the same but I read a report on the Japs using chains and some type of heavy block to kill our pilots by dumping them alive overboard.
“41st President was almost eaten”
Wish he was.
You’re correct.
Bush was picked up by an American submarine.
HW was never a POW.
Bush the Elder was shot down while flying a Grumman TBF Avenger.
He was rescued by the submarine U.S.S. Finback.
1% of all Allied prisoners of war died as a result of German captivity.
36% of all Allied prisoners help captive by the Japanese died as a result of their captivity.
The Japs were bastards.
Bush was rescued by a submarine. The U.S.S. Finback.
Read about the Japanese ‘’hell ships’’. A nightmarish account of how the Japs transported Allied prisoners.
Not for the squeamish.
Three strikes and you’re out.
Naaaah! This is wiffleball. What counts is honesty. Ease up a little. If yer gonna call a “CODE RED” go back to Gitmo.
Long thought that August 6-9 should be celebrated as Gratitude Day in Japan.
Because of all the Japanese were spared complete annihilation that an American naval shelling and bombing would have caused.
The pathetic remnant of the JIN would have been sent to the bottom with a follow on of every carrier in the Pacific fleet unleashing a relentless hell on their islands. No need for any any invasion.
Should have left just a smoking ruin as a latter day Carthage, a stark reminder to all that would have rocked even Stalin back on his heels, not to mention Mousie Dung who had no navy nor air force.
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