Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper:
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…

Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper:
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…

Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper:
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…

Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper:
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…

Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper:
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…

Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper:
11th Airborne Division, 1943 Yearbook My father, Everett A. Smith, was a member of Headquarters Company/187th/11th Airborne Division, from 1942 until 1946.  From the very start of the division, General Joseph M. Swing was their commander.  Often called ‘Uncle Joe’, Smitty’s picture of him says, “My General” on the reserve…

Originally posted on Pacific Paratrooper:
SMOKY At the beginning of of 1944, Smoky, a Yorkshire terrier, was found by an American soldier with a stalled jeep in the New Guinea jungle where she had been abandoned in a foxhole.  She did not respond to either English or Japanese commands.  After taken to the soldier’s camp,…

Originally posted on Rosalinda R Morgan:
Matt on board the Lauren Kristy, a paddle wheel boat at the Great South Bay, Long Island on one of his friend’s wedding anniversary parties. It is with sadness that I announce the passing of Matthew Morgan on Monday, May 4, 2020. He was 93. He is survived by…

Originally posted on ITALIAN MARRIED TO A FILIPINA:
The “Noli Me Tangere” by José Rizal (Tagalog version) Monument to José Rizal in the Luneta Park in Manila Gloria Arroyo, one of the symbols of the modern Filipina who often occupies positions of power in the Philippine society Young Filipina students on the road to becoming…