Thank you for your kind support, Dave-san.
(Since it is a Japanese section, I will try add "-san" after individuals' name, a Japanese courtesy, so to speak)
Cheers!
Taka
Thank you for your kind support, Dave-san.
(Since it is a Japanese section, I will try add "-san" after individuals' name, a Japanese courtesy, so to speak)
Cheers!
Taka
My pleasure Taka-san
昭和十六年 十二月二十五日 Shouwa 16 (1941) December 25th, 1941
日本軍香港占領 Imperial Japanese Forces Occupies Hong Kong
Battle of Hong Kong ended.
British/Canadian troops surrendered. Known as "Black Christmas" for Hong Kong. Battle of Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Photo: Flag was lowered after the surrender of the British Troops in Hong Kong.
Photo: Japanese military staffs marche on the roads of Hong Kong.
Remember the ones who fought and defended Hong Kong, as well as the "Enemy". May the Fallen Ones forever Rest In Peace.
Last edited by SHINDENKAI; 12-25-2013 at 03:34 PM.
I love this thread Taka-san and the way you are presenting it , thank you
REGARDS AL
We are the Pilgrims , master, we shall go
Always a little further : it may be
Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow
Across that angry or that glimmering sea...
Arigatougozaimas, Alan-san !
Cheers!
Taka
Great Thread Taka-san keep it going.
Martin
Thank you, Martin-san!
Cheers!
Taka
昭和十七年 一月二日 Shouwa 17 (1942) January 2nd, 1942
日本軍、ルソン島マニラを無血占領 Imperial Japan Occupies Manila
Seven days after Manila declared an Open City (Dec 26th), the Imperial Japanese armed forces took complete control of Manila, without any resistance.
Last edited by SHINDENKAI; 01-02-2014 at 03:33 AM.
昭和十七年 一月三日 Shouwa 17 (1942) January 3rd, 1942
神風号の飯沼正明"戰死" Announcement of Masaaki Inuma "Killed in Action" ( Pilot of 1937 Tokyo to London Flight)
Masaaki Inuma 飯沼正明, the pilot who flew from Tokyo ~ London with a first Japanese-built aircraft "Kamikaze Gou", was announced killed in action at Phnom Penh airfield in French Indochina.
Detail on Kamikaze Gou and 1937 Flight: Kamikaze (1937 aircraft) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Photo (Left): Masaaki Inuma (Left), and mechanic Kenji Tsukagoshi 塚越賢爾 (Right) after landing on Paris Airport.
Illustration (Left) : Kamikaze Gou painted by Sigeo Koike
Last edited by SHINDENKAI; 01-03-2014 at 08:18 AM.
A beautiful plane!by SHINDENKAI
So many implications to the story about the plane. A time when the inter-continental hopping was at its peak, when you could write 'Divine Wind' on your plane with no one wrinkling their noses (or cranking up the ack-ack!), that both pilot and navigator were entually lost like so many young men from both sides in the conflict.
I thought the plane beautiful and interesting. If I ever make it to Japan, it would have been great if the plane was preserved. Was happy to read, that it was saved after a crash and put on display.....only to have my hope for ever seeing it dashed upon reading, that the building housing it was lost during the WWII bombing campaign.
More artwork and a model of the 'Kamikaze' below (great angle on the latter, as its comming in for a landing).
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