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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
... Stockholm, 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. Swe...
...le 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...
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
... any 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 f...
... war 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/direct...
...ery important in Japan but not something westerners could relate to. A key related issue was the absolute Japanese obediance to their rulers and of course to the emperor. But during the war variou...
If you extend your area of interest to the north, a Japanese submarine shelled Estevan Point (near the city of Victoria) on Vancouver Island.
...ce 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 hel...
... theater 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 th...
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
...in 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 u...
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
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
... about 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 Germa...
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,
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
...e of 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...
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
...mans 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 equipp...
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
...vailable 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 ...
... : 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
...s were 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 radi...
...elp 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 wou...
...y the Navy. It did not /remotely/ 'threaten to starve Japan's industry', to the stone age or anywhere else. Japanese industry was perking along just fine. And would continue to do so right up until ea...
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)
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
...exceptional 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 infa...
...y had 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 l...
...Harbor 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? T...
...ter 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 boun...
...verlooked one significant fact: that the Potsdam declaration called for the unconditional surrender *of the Japanese armed forces*. So from the beginning of the back & forth (if we are not permitted t...
...s far more pervasive in its field of operations than the Soviet Union. The Russians are just compliant. The Japanese were positively enthusiastic. The Soviet Union had to conscript its soldiers. The J...
... couldn't fight. That puts them in good company with their ideological successors, the Nazis and Imperial Japanese....
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
...pon 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 conquest. Instead, there we...
...t service operation that sunk a Dutch submarine in the Pacific november 28, 1941. The sub had spotted the japanese fleet heading for Pearl Harbour and promptly informed the Allied Command in Asia. T...
...uess is that they would have estimated relatively light damages and casualties for 2 reasons: 1) Before PH, Japanese military capabilities were held in relatively low esteem, and 2) a war warning had ...
...hes. After Hitler declared war on the USA after Pearl Harbor, it seems to me Hitler should have said to the Japanese....'OK gentlemen, I'll fight the Americans with you but you must help us fight the ...
...lready there when she arrived.. But that isn't the end of the story or the confusion. In recent years the Japanese-Americans have entered the act with spokespersons claiming that it was a unit of th...
...ir troops? I'm more interested in the positive, humorous side of boosting morale, not the comfort girls the Japanese used.......
...sed 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 woul...
It was recently stated in a posting on this net that the U.S. government did not recognize the Japanese citizenship of dual-citizen Japanese-Americans during WWII, and that the government did not reco
...otal casualties, sometimes for deaths, sometimes for US only casualties or deaths only, sometimes including Japanese soldiers, sometimes including Japanese civilians and sometimes including casualties...
Larry J
Can someone tell me if the US tracked, spotted or attacked any Japanese Subs off the coast of Washington, California or Oregon during W.W.II.
...II. Did Roosevelt know the date the war would start? III. Did Roosevelt know that Pearl Harbor was the main Japanese target? **************************************************************** I. Did...
(stuff deleted) You will notice that when the Japanese overtly sank a US gunboat, the US did not declare war against Japan. The US leadership was considerably different during WW2 than it was during
Hi, A while ago, I asked people to suggest books written by Germans and Japanese regarding WWII. I want to thank everyone who responded. I appreciate your help. Below I listed some of the book recomme
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