Japanese

[Louis]

A japanese Zero recon wreck near a LST-806 landing craft, on March 22, 1945, Philippines.

 

[Myles]

Kiska Island Japanese Midget Submarines

At the time of World War II, Kiska Island was occupied by twelve men of a United States Navy weather station, two of whom were not present during the Japanese invasion. On 6-7 June, 1942, in actions designed to roughly coordinate with their attack on Midway Island, Japanese forces occupied both Kiska and Attu Islands against no opposition. On Kiska they built an airfield, a series of coastal and anti-aircraft defenses, a submarine base, seaplane base, and quarters for troops.

The picture [below] shows the Japanese midget submarine base on Kiska Island under inspection by U.S. and Canadian troops in September, 1943. The submarines had been destroyed by the Japanese upon evacuating the island. And the site as it appears today.

 

[mTk]

I'm thinking that the picture of the Japanese float plane above is probably one of these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aichi_E13A

 

[Louis]

 

[Louis]

Captured Japanese Molotov Cocktails with fuses and other with its operating instructions. Iwo Jima, March 1945.

 

[steve]

The Bridge on the River Kwai (beefed up after the war)

I was there in 2003.......the wife lost an uncle who managed to survive the ordeal only to sucumb to his injuries on the boat home.
His effects were sent home and someone in the family has a diary which I'm hoping to look at someday.
We also walked along the railway line at Hellfire Pass in Kanchanaburi.......truly moving.

Steve

 

[Louis]

On travel to Pearl Harbor, Nov 1941.
View from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier “Zuikaku”: the aircraft carrier “Kaga” (closer) and the aircraft carrier “Akagi” (further).

 

[Louis]

Lt. Yoshinori Yamaguchi’s flying his Yokosuka D4Y3 Suisei during a kamikaze attack against carrier Essex, on 25 Nov 1944. The plane crashed into the flight deck just missing parked planes. Sixteen men died in the attack, along with Yamaguchi. The pilot flew from Malabacat Air Field located in the Philippines.

 

[Hedgehog]

Good Pictures @Louis

 

[Louis]

A japanese midget submarine captured at Pearl Harbor is shown on a national war bond tour, Washington, April 3, 1943.

 

[Louis]

A fake Japanese Anti-aircraft gun constructed around a fish oil and acid producing factory off a beach in Japan.

 

[Louis]

Yokosuka D4Y Suisei, shot down by USS Hornet (CV-12) aircraft carrier artillery.

 

[Louis]

Inside Betty bomber.

 

[Louis]

On board aircraft carrier Kaga, the Lt. Ichiro Kitajima, briefs his Nakajima B5N2 Kate crews about the plan for the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 6, 1941.

 

[mTk]

Never heard of this carrier before. Given its length of service my oversight is understandable.

 

[Louis]

Suicide failed.
"After Japan's unconditional surrender in 1945, General MacArthur ordered the arrest of forty alleged war criminals, including Tojo. Five American GIs were sent to serve the arrest warrant. As soldiers surrounded Hideki's house on Sept 11, he shot himself in the chest with a pistol but missed his heart".
Finally Tojo was sentenced to death on Nov 12, 1948, and executed by hanging 41 days later.

 

[Louis]

Japanese pilots study the details of a night mission, while the engines of their Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa are already underway.

 

[Louis]

Japanese sniper during training. 1941

 

[Louis]

A dummy four-engine bomber aircraft made of wood, with propellers and wheels made from planks and bamboo struts to support the wings in captured Japanese territory near the end of War, circa 1945.

 

[Louis]

Aichi E13A “Jake” seaplanes after Japan’s 1945 surrender.

 

[Nort]