Occupation of Japan
Feb 24, 2022 09:14:09 #
Feb 24, 2022 09:54:39 #
Quixdraw wrote:
Resembles Wainwright, nicknamed Skinny by his classmates at the Point. He would have just recently have been a Japanese POW in the Philippines. Looks like photos of him.
I think you are right.
Dennis
Feb 24, 2022 09:55:42 #
I love your photographs. Perhaps my thought comes from my own very similar photographs taken in Vietnam. They seem to resemble military life in every war.
Dennis
Dennis
Feb 24, 2022 10:17:48 #
Thank you very much for those. I spent a couple of weeks at Atsugi NAS in ‘67. Big changes. (Still a few R5D/C54s around, though.)
Feb 24, 2022 10:59:39 #
Feb 24, 2022 11:31:00 #
therwol
Loc: USA
BurghByrd wrote:
Thanks for posting these. It's particularly germane today as yet another despot invades his neighbor.
In reviewing my post, I see that I left one picture out. Perhaps the most important and most sobering one. I think of all of those who don't come home from wars and how the future changes in their absence. There has to be a better way, but history has shown that we as a race haven't figured that out yet.
Feb 24, 2022 11:54:21 #
ABQMikee
Loc: Albuquerque, NM
Was the last picture of the tomb taken in Okinawa? I don't think those types of tombs were in Japan.
Feb 24, 2022 11:54:39 #
ABQMikee
Loc: Albuquerque, NM
Was the last picture of the tomb taken in Okinawa? I don't think those types of tombs were in Japan.
Feb 24, 2022 12:45:59 #
Feb 24, 2022 12:50:55 #
Interesting! Thanks for your nice work on these--enjoyed seeing them.
Feb 24, 2022 13:12:31 #
Feb 24, 2022 13:14:09 #
Feb 24, 2022 13:28:25 #
therwol
Loc: USA
ABQMikee wrote:
Was the last picture of the tomb taken in Okinawa? I don't think those types of tombs were in Japan.
It's possible, but my father is no longer around to ask about it. The person standing outside of the tomb is my father. There is one picture of him in the collection, probably taken by the person who sold him the rest of the pictures. So was he in Okinawa? I don't know, but it's certainly possible.
Feb 24, 2022 13:30:23 #
Feb 24, 2022 16:09:12 #
SteveFranz
Loc: Durham, NC
BurghByrd wrote:
Thanks for posting these. It's particularly germane today as yet another despot invades his neighbor.
From the 60's novel "Alas, Babylon" It takes two to make peace, only one to make war.
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