Originally posted on ITALIAN HUSBAND OF A FILIPINA Italyanong Asawa ng Isang Pilipina:
As those of you who have been following my blog for a while know, I speak Tagalog or Filipino (my wife’s native language) rather fluently. Was it hard for me to learn it? What does it mean to learn a language? Well,…
Of the 327-man crew, only 141 survived that day. Source: Wreck of USS Johnston discovered 77 years after its sinking at the Battle of Leyte Gulf
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U.S.S.?Cod?(SS 224), was launched on March 21, 1943. under the command of CDR James C. Dempsey, USN. Dempsey had already won fame by sinking the first Japanese destroyer lost in the war while in command of a tiny, World War I-era submarine. It was on?Cod‘s third patrol, Dempsey’s last in…
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My apologies for yesterday’s glitch. I have no idea what happened or how. GP Cox Japanese/American Unity – Today ############################################################################################################### Japanese Military Humor – from: Kunihiko Hisa cartoon album “Zero Fighter 1940-1945” ? ? ? ? ? ? ################################################################################################################ Farewell Salutes – Marvin L. Anderson – Los Angeles, CA; US…
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54th TCW patch The 54th Troop Carrier Wing was established on 26 February 1943 [one day after the 11th A/B Div. at Camp MacKall] and commenced air transport and medical air evacuation operations in support of Fifth Air Force on 26 May 1943. advancing as battle lines permitted. The unit took part…
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P-38 in the Pacific Perhaps Colonel Ben Kelsey, a P-38 test pilot, summed up the war bird’s legacy best of all. “(That) comfortable old cluck,” he said, “would fly like hell, fight like a wasp upstairs, and land like a butterfly.” The P-38 was the most successful USAAF fighter in…
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Yamashita at his trial. One of the most monumental surrenders in the Pacific War was General Tomoyuki Yamashita. General Tomoyuki Yamashita as he led his staff officers of the 14th Area Army to surrender, 2 Sept. 1945. He did not believe in hara-kiri.? He said, “If I kill myself, someone…
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I wish all of the distinguished artists of WWII could have been included – here is the final year of the Pacific War… “Battle of Luzon” by: Yorozujiro Terauchi, 1945 Mandalay, Burma, by: David Pentland, Feb. ’45 Pacific Glory” by: Nicholas Trudgian It is March 1945 and the P-38’s of…
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As promised, here is an example of other works of art for the following year of the Pacific War… USMC in the Marshall Islands, 31 Jan 1944, by: James V. Griffin Truk Island, Carolinas, by: Frank Lemon RNZAF, May 1944 with Corsairs Saipan Jun-july 1944, by: Robert…
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USS West Virginia, pre-WWII Her wounds had been grievous that morning in 1941, when Japanese torpedo bombers swept low over the shallow waters of Pearl Harbor and unleashed their deadly cargoes at the easy targets moored along Battleship Row. The surface might of the U.S. Pacific Fleet was virtually helpless…
