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This thread is on eleven years of Chicagoboyz blog VJ-Day commemorative columns.
This thread is on eleven years of Chicagoboyz blog VJ-Day commemorative columns.
2010 – Nagasaki, Hiroshima and Saving Hirohito’s Phony Baloney Job
This column is why it took both atomic bombs and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria to get the Japanese military to surrender
chicagoboyz.net/archives/14610…
This column is why it took both atomic bombs and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria to get the Japanese military to surrender
chicagoboyz.net/archives/14610…
2010 - Hiroshima — The A-bomb plus 65 years
This is focused on Richard B. Frank's column
"Why Truman Dropped the Bomb"
Sixty years after Hiroshima, we now have the secret intercepts that influenced his decision.
chicagoboyz.net/archives/14488…
This is focused on Richard B. Frank's column
"Why Truman Dropped the Bomb"
Sixty years after Hiroshima, we now have the secret intercepts that influenced his decision.
chicagoboyz.net/archives/14488…
Both King George VI and Queen Mary kept diaries recording #VJDay75.
The day before, Queen Mary notes that: “There was a false alarm about peace for a time, that was declared definitely about midnight, so night was made hideous with noises, fireworks etc. impossible to sleep.”
The day before, Queen Mary notes that: “There was a false alarm about peace for a time, that was declared definitely about midnight, so night was made hideous with noises, fireworks etc. impossible to sleep.”
On 15 August 1945 she writes that during the day “The crowds most disturbing & calling out ‘We want the Queen’ at intervals & I had to go & wave! After dinner I adjoined to the top of Marlborough House to see the flood lighting of Buckingham Palace etc. most lovely”
King George VI wrote, “The Prime Minister & some of his colleagues came to congratulate me on the victorious ending of the war”. The King and Queen “went out to the Balcony 6 times during the afternoon & evening”, large crowds having amassed outside Buckingham Palace by 10am.
USS Enterprise pilots who successfully dive-bombed the Japanese carrier fleet @ Midway tell the story: "last meal" at 4AM, adrenaline of manning planes, taking off from ship, finding the fleet, the fight itself & treacherous return. Fascinating! #VJDay75
"So that morning... way ahead of dawn... around 4 o'clock in the morning. We came down and had steak & eggs for breakfast... The chiefs really knew when there was going to be a real battle... When you had steak & eggs you knew you were in for a real bad day."
"Then you start manning your planes, & you know that you... you are going up there and you are going to have a problem. And you know you're gonna have a problem, that's why you're there. So... that gets the old adrenaline pumping & the old heart begins to pound pretty fast."
1/ My late father, Brian Rowntree’s (centre) letter home, from his ship #hmsindefatigable , about #VJDay
( #VJDay75 thread):
“Well, we have got a third and last surrender, after all that suspense. Censorship has been lifted this morning, so I can spread myself in this”
( #VJDay75 thread):
“Well, we have got a third and last surrender, after all that suspense. Censorship has been lifted this morning, so I can spread myself in this”
2/ “Rumours were driving us mental... on the morning the Japs threw in the towel, we were as usual at action stations & we had a strike out over Tokyo Bay. They came back, having knocked down six, and we cancelled our further planned strikes...
3/ “and the Commander broadcast & pointed out that the flagship was flying the signal ‘cease activities against Japan’. We all leaned over the rail and were goofing at the string of the bunting, when...
Jemadar Chint Singh of the 2/12 Frontier Force Regiment was captured at Malaya along with thousands of other Indian soldiers in February 1942. The next three years would be hellish. He was one of the lucky few who survived being in Japanese captivity. He also left behind a memoir
'None of us had the slightest idea of the terrible time which lay ahead.' 3000 Indian POWs were landed at New Guinea in May 1943. 'The Japanese had two cargo boats and we were kept in a dreadful condition throughout the journey.'
He recounts how they were slapped, beaten, left for dead & often murdered in cold blood. The men had to steal rations because they were left to the point of starvation. Two men found with stolen rations were 'tied to a tree, severely beaten & later shot by the Japanese'.
