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My Uncle's name was GEORGE P. ROBERTSON he fought in the Pacific with the U.S.ARMY against the Japanese. he was honored in the news paper and he received a PURPLE HEART. HE HAS SINCE PASED AWAY AND
...ockholm, like other neutral capitals such as Lisbon and Madrid, was a hotbed of espionage with plenty of Japanese agents on hand whose activities were winked at by the Swedish Foreign Ministry. Sweden...
...slaughterd for the armys food . the order didn't force anybody from their homes . in ww 2 the removal of japanese was orderd by california gov earl warren later of the supreme court . the army didn't ...
OK, this is sort of a tangent from the Japanese-American relocation thread. It seems that, after Pearl Harbor, the common populace of California was expecting iminent Japanese invasion of the West C
...r but the alongside method (started by the USN?) seems to have only caught on in 1943. Also what did the Japanese do? I think I have most of the AA story, but I have missed how the 282 radar/director ...
...y reference on this type of flag ( where it may have been used, history, etc ) 2) Also background on a Japanese silk flag that has writing all around the red center. ( typical meaning of such a flag...
Hi, I seem to remember reading that a couple members of Congress voted against declaring war on Japan, though my memory could be faulty. :) Does anyone know who they were, or where I might find out? I
One of the big debates about the Potsdam surrender ultimatum was whether it allowed Japan to save face and its 'honor', a topic supposedly very important in Japan but not something westerners could re
If you extend your area of interest to the north, a Japanese submarine shelled Estevan Point (near the city of Victoria) on Vancouver Island.
...eater of World War II? I am also interested in the number of people who died in prisoner camps under the Japanese, as I am writing a research paper on that topic. Anyone who can answer either of these...
...of her, or her crew, was ever found. The book in question suggested that she had been finished of by a Japanese submarine, even though the battle took place on November 19, 1941. Can anyone help m...
Ingemar wrote on the subject of a Japanese submarine attacking 'Sydney:. The book is 'Who Sank the Sydney', Cassell, Melbourne, 1981. Author is = Michael Montgommery, son of the 'Sydney''s navigator
Many people claim somehow that using the atomic bomb against Japan was 'immoral'. They claim the war could have been won using 'conventional' methods instead. I'm curious as to what the reasoning wo
...the war first came from the war in the Pacific. It was in August, 1940, that the United States broke the Japanese 'purple' war-time code. This gave the American government the ability to read and unde...
As part of the campaign to take Midway Island in June 1942, the Japanese bombed Dutch Harbor in the Aleutian Islands and occupied Attu and Kiska islands as part of a diversion away from the main opera
... they faked it till exposed in 1989. Now they are where they were in 1889. Good luck to them! China or Japan could have set up a mine/factory/bank thing centred on Manchuria 100 years ago but didn't...
I picked up a copy of the book 'Japan's War The Great Pacific Conflict 1853 to 1952' by Edwin P. Hoyt, (c) 1986. It seems like a pretty good book. I was curious as to what other people thought of
...out occupying troop behavior. I have taken a class on the war in the pacific and know fully well how the Japanese soldiers treated the people they were occupying. What I don't know is how the German s...
To the Group: Looking for any information about Col. Tsuji, who served in the Japanese Army, during WW II. Read one, and only, article on him, on the net and I am wishing to learn more. Sincerely,
I am wondering why the Japanese didn't send ground troops accompanying the fleet to occupy Hawaii right after they launched the surprise air-naval attack on the Pearl Harbor? If they had taken over an
...ble in many places. Given the habits of the defeated governments of the primary Axis powers (Germany and Japan), racism became associated with the evils of mass extermination and the like. I.e. white ...
A friend recently told me of a conversation after WWII between an American and Japanese officer. The American asked why Japan did not invade the West Coast after Pearl Harbor, while we still did not h
...f what were called 'colored' divisions and a few isolated units such as the 761st Tank Battalion and the Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Team. A friend of mine who was in the 4th Infantry Di...
During the time period were talking about(Dec 41 to June 42) the Japanese Military did mount one successful amphibious operation after another at Lingiun Gulf(sp) PI, Solemns Is New Gunina etc:(pardon
where ther any commonwealth troops taking part in the ocupation of Japan or were there only Americans ?
...s had the Gewehr 41(W) and 43 models semi-automatic rifles, and the Russians had the SVT40, and even the Japanese had the Type 5 semi-automatic rifle. But what of the British? Were they ever equipped ...
If anyone knows who the last american soldier killed in World War 2 by the japanese, and they told me, i would greatly appreciate it...thank
... : Recently the official U.S. Navy position on its capability to read the : main Japanese fleet code (JN-25B) was declassified: 'By December 1 we had : it solved to a readable extent.' (National
...lable for the following: Italians in Abbyssinia (evidence? I thought this was a well established fact) Japanese 'during their occupation of China' (This one's a little more fuzzy, but once again I t...
...ere sacrificed. The documentary also includes an interview with someone who claims to have tracked the Japanese fleet using radio direction finding gear; this would seem to indicate frequent radio t...
... shore up defence in Indonesia or was it pre invasion bombing. Furthermore is there any info on actual Japanese plans for the invasion of Australia. I know they wanted to take Australia but I would ...
I've only seen this argument in one place, do you think its valid? Japan's civilian economy ran on coal, not oil. All the oil embargo did was threaten the military, especially the Navy. It did not /
...ka :) - Dan (http://www.concentric.net/~danford) Flying Tigers / Brewster Buffalo / Germany at War / Japan at War...
Interesing tid bits about WWII 1. The first German serviceman killed in WW II was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940)
...bor in Sunday's New York Times says 'In the six months before Dec. 7, 239 messages between Tokyo and the Japanese embassy in Washington had been deciphered.' Have these messages been published? The ...
...ad regular air raid drills there during the war. The ostensible purpose of these drills were in case the Japanese decided to bomb Pickwick Dam located 30 miles or so away. This seems absolutely ludi...
Fifty six years ago TODAY, the Japanese launched what is in my opinion the most merciless, underhanded, inexcusable sneak attack in the history of warfare. We were not at war with Japan when they bomb
...eptional general, but he fought a very > different war than that fought in Europe. Battles against > the Japanese in Burma usually consisted of fighting > fanatically tenacious battalion-sized infantr...
Looking for list of all crew-members on Doolittles Raid on Japan from the air-craft carrier HORNET on April 1942. Am especially interested to know if actor ROD STEIGER was a
No way. Japan beats the Soviet Union any day of the week. First, the Thought Police (actually Ministry of Home Affairs) had help in the form of lots of army and navy officers who do random killings of
... hostilities in the Atlantic. The rumor goes that this sub had a quantity of uranium aboard and that two Japanese had committed suicide while enroute to a US port.Apparently, this sub had been bound f...
...ard this maneuver was analyzed and many demanded changes in navy. Nothing still happened, in U.S. but in Japan the news was wellcome, and they developed these further. And after nine years.... * fro...
...goal? It all depends upon what you mean by the term. World conquest has been a multi-generation goal for Japan's leadership. Yet, Japanese military operations plans were never prepared for world conqu...
Discussions of Japan's surrender as negotiated or not have mostly overlooked one significant fact: that the Potsdam declaration called for the unconditional surrender *of the Japanese armed forces*. S
...uldn't fight. That puts them in good company with their ideological successors, the Nazis and Imperial Japanese....
... with tremendous success by British commandos during raids on Fortress Europa prior to D-Day and against Japanese forces in the other WWII theatre.' What battle(s) would the De Lisle carbine would h...
...troops? I'm more interested in the positive, humorous side of boosting morale, not the comfort girls the Japanese used.......
Just finished reading a book about Allied POWs held by the Japanese. In it, the author mentions that there was a German U-Boat at Singapore in late AUG and early SEP of 1944. If this was true, any ide
...bout because the USSR was entitled to North Korea? This was because of the Russian participation against Japan in the waning days of the war?...
...mies. - Dan (http://www.concentric.net/~danford) Brewster Buffalo / Flying Tigers / Germany at War / Japan at War...
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