Posted on 05/30/2019 4:18:35 PM PDT by WWII_Historian
Golden Gate in ‘48.
“...When will World War II finally be over?..”
Hell, the Civil War will never be over and Germany seems to be perpetually punishing itself for WW 11.
Ronald Reagan ended WWII. What the heck we are doing in Europe is a mystery to me.
I believe the USSR and Japan have not yet signed a peace treaty. The USSR declared war on Japan a couple of days after the bombing of Hiroshima. They immediately invaded Manchuria and turned over Japanese weapons to their buddy Mao. They thought their three-week war effort entitled them to half of Japan. After four years of war, we weren’t ready to give it to them. But thanks to their war-time sacrifice we ended up with Red China and North Korea. They still have some islands that Japan considers Japanese.
Ok, now that is funny.
It’s funny the different response of Germany compared to Japan. As you say, Germany is perpetually making amends while Japan mostly denies anything happened.
One plane was missed to the right of the geyser.The eliptical wing cant be missed.It belongs to a Val dive bomber
The muslimes!
We woulda bombed em back to the stone age, but they were already there.
I’m just here for the Bluto meme.
Back in the late ‘70s, I was invited to dinner at the home of a Hawaiian gun collector. At the end of the evening, he had one more surprise to show me - the wingtip of a Val downed during the Pearl Harbor attack.
He was a young kid back then and he’d found the wingtip in the street and dragged it into his garage.
I'll have to look up the exact statistics, but in the 1950s when the Army and US Government reviewed the occupation of both Germany and Japan, approximately 3% of the German population had been involved in some form of "de-nazification" from being charged or executed, to something much less serious like being denied political or government office.
The similar figure for Japan was 0.2%.
About the time transistor radios came out.
If WWII isn’t over then neither is WWI.
WWII is what the Globalists are trying to end.
(Snicker, snicker) That’s funny.
WWII will be over when China and Korea team up to destroy Japan. Neither country seems to have any inclination to forgive and forget.
In Germany there were Wehrmacht military equipment maintenance battalions that when captured by the US were told to keep working. They and the US Army were in agreement that the Soviet Army might use their momentum moving west to try and conquer western Europe, and equipment maintenance there was at a premium.
These maintenance battalions continued to operate as pseudo-military reserves in maintenance overalls well into the 1980s.
Wow,That would be one hell of a collectors item today.I wonder if he ever found out which aircraft it came off of?
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