In rememberance

wisbaker · Mar 31, 2012

31 March 1942- 22 modified Army Air Corps B-25 medium bombers assigned to the 17 Bomb Group (Medium) arrive at Naval Air Station Alemeda California. Prior mission assignments for the 17 BG had been anti-submarine patrols.

Anonymous-0 · Mar 31, 2012

Destination Tokyo.

Ultradog MN · Mar 31, 2012

Go Jimmy!

In Burma, the Japanese drive on, with determination and barbarity...at one point they capture 17 British soldiers and strip them for bayonet practice. The British are forced to withdraw amid 110F heat.

Phil in Pa · Mar 31, 2012

About a week ago I caught part of a show with some higher-education types bemoaning Hiroshima.

The brutality of the Japanese was never mentioned.

GeneMO · Mar 31, 2012

I met Travis Hoover several times at air shows.

Gene

gordy from Iowa · Mar 31, 2012

Some times it seems that people forget that Japan was the aggressor, and a brutal one at that. Look what they did to the chinese. And, it took more than one bomb to convince Japan to quit.

It wasn't worth one american life to invade the Japanese mainland.

Dang, it sure makes me mad also to hear somebody say that we should not have dropped the bomb. I'll bet they would not think that way if they had been a war prisoner.

I recently read "Unbroken" == true story of a war prisoner in Japan.

37chief · Mar 31, 2012

I am now reading Escape from Davao. It is the only time any prisioners escaped from a japanese POW camp. Stan

JOHNNYfromMI · Mar 31, 2012

If I were a traffic policeman them Jap cars would get lots of tickets. People are so proud of them forein cars they drive.

JerryS · Mar 31, 2012

I have read that the bombs did not exactly defeat the Japanese--they had plenty of fight left---but Fat Man and Little Boy did make them realize that they couldn't win. Once they faced that realization, the decision to surrender came fairly easy: they wanted to surrender to the Americans and only the Americans. The war in Europe was over, and the Russians were already turning their eyes eastward and trying to position themselves to participate in the end game play there. The Japanese wanted no part of the Russians, who were just as brutal as the Japanese.

LAA · Mar 31, 2012

My Dad always said that the people who think that dropping the bomb was bad were not where he was in August of 1945, which was on Guam preparing for the mainland invasion. They were ordered by Admiral Nimitz to write their Mothers, Wives or Sweethearts and say goodbye because the majority would not survive. My Dad had survived 29 months in the Pacific theatre and he knew his odds had to be running out.

Bill(Wis) · Apr 1, 2012

And one day later (1 April, 1942) sixteen of them were loaded onto the USS Hornet. The rest, as they say, is history.

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