[American Constitutionalist]

" The Kamikazes failed in 1944-45 and these liberal kamikazes will fail as well. "

Actually, after losing almost all of their Navy, the Japaneses resorted to desperate attacks of the Kamikazes rather late in the war right before we totally defeated them on Aug 6 1945 ......

[truthguy]

Who is the American LT General in the Photo?

I know it was MacArthur who presided over the surrender ceremony but that's not him in the photo. Is that his chief of staff?
Anyone know?

[GVnana]

The man in the photo is most certainly NOT Wainright.

Starting at 0800 that morning, destroyer after destroyer pulled alongside the Missouri, her topside spaces already brimming with sailors and correspondents -- in particular the Japanese press. Allied generals, admirals, and ranking diplomats were delivered. Admiral Nimitz, appointed as representative of all American forces, was piped aboard at 0805. General MacArthur arrived via the destroyer USS Buchanan (DD 484) at about 0830. A naval precedent was set when Admiral Nimitz' blue flag and General MacArthur's red flag flew side by side from the Missouri 's mainmast.

For a bit of irony, MacArthur invited General Jonathan M. Wainwright, Commander of the U.S. Forces which surrendered at Corregidor in 1942, and Lieutenant General Arthur E. Percival, Commander of the British forces that surrendered at Singapore in the same year. Both were terribly emaciated, having been quickly spirited from captivity in a Japanese prison camp in Manchuria.

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