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VJ Day: The Forgotten War
newstatesman ^
| Aug 15
| By David Reynolds
Posted on 08/15/2025 4:06:47 AM PDT by RandFan
The defeat of Japan in August 1945 has become a footnote to Allied victory in Europe. But the world we inhabit today was forged in Asia 80 years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at newstatesman.com ...
TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; History
KEYWORDS: churchillbashing; japan; pacificwar; vjday; worldwareleven
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To: RandFan
My dad commanded an LCT on Utah Beach. Later, he was XO of an LST, heading for the Pacific to prepare for the invasion of Japan.
They were somewhere around the Panama Canal when the war ended.
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08/15/2025 9:12:27 AM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(Michael Bennet claps on 1 and 3.)
To: ABN 505
My brother lived in Japan for 8 years. He talked often about how wonderful and pleasant the country and people were. As a reader of military history and familiar with Japanese atrocity's and treatment of “others” I finally told him they are nice now because we forced them to be nice, anything wonderful about them now is do to being Americanized. He did not appreciate that.My son was stationed in Japan a few years ago while serving in the Navy, he didn’t believe me when I told him about the atrocities committed by the Japanese’s during WWII. My late Father who fought Japan in WWII was an eyewitness to it.
To: Vermont Lt
"I had two uncles in the Pacific." My brother and I had a father who joined the USMC in February 1942 and did not get home to the U.S. until December 1945...
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08/15/2025 11:33:47 AM PDT
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SuperLuminal
(Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
To: DesertRhino
And Godzilla. Can’t forget about Godzilla.
Hell, Godzilla is a byproduct of American ingenuity with nuclear warfare.
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08/15/2025 11:40:38 AM PDT
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RandallFlagg
(Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
To: dpetty121263
It’s good the japs surrendered in 45 because they were rapidly catching up technology wise.
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08/15/2025 11:50:15 AM PDT
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central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: shotgun
Politics and ego. Just like every other war we have seen, read about, and lived through.
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08/15/2025 12:20:49 PM PDT
by
onona
To: shotgun
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posted on
08/16/2025 2:06:40 AM PDT
by
minnesota_bound
(Making money now. Still want much more.)
To: shotgun
Do you have any idea what Aleutian weather looks like?
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08/16/2025 6:45:46 AM PDT
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DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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