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re: Air Force Football "Doolittle Raid" uniforms stirring up some feelings amongst people
Posted on 8/18/23 at 12:03 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
Posted on 8/18/23 at 12:03 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
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Posted on 8/18/23 at 12:05 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
Posted on 8/18/23 at 12:09 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
Kinda shocking how many people view Imperial Japan as some sort of victims in that twitter thread. Too many anime and video game fans can't even fathom just how evil and sadistic Japan was in those days.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 12:10 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
I was reading an article this morning about how South Korea and Japan are going to start working together militarily for the first time since WWII.
That’s how long it took the Koreans to come around, and it’s only because China is posing such a threat to the region.
Find some hundred year old Koreans and ask them how they feel about the Japanese.
You can argue the cost/benefit of dropping nuclear bombs on Japan or firebombing Dresden. However, to act like we were in the wrong for either of those decisions is ridiculous.
That’s how long it took the Koreans to come around, and it’s only because China is posing such a threat to the region.
Find some hundred year old Koreans and ask them how they feel about the Japanese.
You can argue the cost/benefit of dropping nuclear bombs on Japan or firebombing Dresden. However, to act like we were in the wrong for either of those decisions is ridiculous.
This post was edited on 8/18/23 at 12:11 pm
Posted on 8/18/23 at 12:24 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
It’s a shame we didn’t have nukes developed at this point. Could have ended that shite with quickness.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 12:29 pm to WaterLink
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Kinda shocking how many people view Imperial Japan as some sort of victims in that twitter thread. Too many anime and video game fans can't even fathom just how evil and sadistic Japan was in those days.
Anyone that has sympathy for them is just a straight up pussy. My Dad was just a little boy when the war was going on but he heard all the stories from relatives and friends. Ppl who complain go read up on the Bataan death march. Them ppl were pure savages and subhuman the things they did. My Dad absolutely hated Japanese for what they did. Something’s you hear about you just can’t get over.
This post was edited on 8/18/23 at 12:32 pm
Posted on 8/18/23 at 12:43 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
We could have bombed the Imperial Palace during the Doolittle Raid. Instead we just flew over it to taunt them.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 12:46 pm to BigBinBR
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The Chinese people were instrumental in hiding our pilots and keeping them safe from the Japanese. The Chinese helped because the Japanese were brutal toward them - even more so than they were toward US fighters.
The Chinese people paid the price for this as well. The Doolittle Raids sparked the Zhejiang-Jiangxi campaign. Estimates are that the Japanese killed 250,000 civilians and 70,000 soldiers in that campaign.
ETA: An estimated 10,000 people were killed just in the search for the Doolittle Raiders.
This post was edited on 8/18/23 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 8/18/23 at 12:48 pm to Mizzoufan26
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My Grandfather was a Japanese POW, frick any feelings these cocksuckers have
Progressives today will gladly tell you that your grandfather was a Nazi and deserved it all.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 1:06 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
Any ‘feels’ would be prob be coming from the Chinese… in retaliation for being in on the plan (Doolittle piloted landed in China), tens of thousands of Chinese died at the hands of the Japs
Posted on 8/18/23 at 1:16 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
Fun fact Doolittle Raiders practiced in Columbia SC at Lake Murray. My High school drafting teacher was Horace Crouch who was a bombardier with the Doolittle Raiders and was a dick.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 1:44 pm to BilbeauTBaggins
some people are eagerly looking for something to be "stirred up" about
I've heard it said that you can't silence those people but Gorilla Tape disagrees, especially when applied over the nose as well as mouth
I've heard it said that you can't silence those people but Gorilla Tape disagrees, especially when applied over the nose as well as mouth
This post was edited on 8/18/23 at 1:46 pm
Posted on 8/18/23 at 1:46 pm to SixthAndBarone
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They bombed Pearl Harbor and declared war on the US, not the other way around
Are you sure about that? (And the other 25 morons who up voted your post)
We declared war on Japan. Germany declared war in the US a few days later
Posted on 8/18/23 at 2:41 pm to jbgleason
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I would bet actual money that if you surveyed the people who are complaining none of them could describe the mission. I further posit that they are confusing this with the fire bombing raids which were actually pretty damn hard core in retrospect.
When I was a kid I remember visiting an uncle who had flown B-29s over Japan. In a spare room there was a "LeMay for President poster". And people thought Reagan scared the hell out of the Soviets.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 2:41 pm to White Roach
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We declared war on Japan. Germany declared war in the US a few days later
WRONG!!!!!
Good grief, the Japanese declaration of war was delivered on 7 Dec AFTER the word of Pearl Harbor got back to Washington...the US declaration of war was on December 8th...
Posted on 8/18/23 at 2:45 pm to White Roach
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They bombed Pearl Harbor and declared war on the US, not the other way around
Are you sure about that? (And the other 25 morons who up voted your post)
We declared war on Japan. Germany declared war in the US a few days later
Wow. It's always funny watching someone so wrong call others morons.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_declaration_of_war_on_the_United_States_and_the_British_Empire
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The Imperial edict of declaration of war by the Empire of Japan on the United States and the British Empire (??????????????) was published on December 8, 1941 (Japan time; December 7 in the United States), 7.5 hours after Japanese forces started an attack on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor and attacks on British forces in Malaya, Singapore, and Hong Kong. The declaration of war was printed on the front page of all Japanese newspapers' evening editions on December 8. The document was subsequently printed again on the eighth day of each month throughout the war (until Japan surrendered in 1945), to re-affirm the resolve for the war.
Posted on 8/18/23 at 8:21 pm to WaterLink
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Kinda shocking how many people view Imperial Japan as some sort of victims in that twitter thread
It’s easy to villainize a country, but oppressive totalitarian regimes make victims of their own populaces too.
not to say Doolittle Raiders we’re wrong. that’s was how war was co ducted. The Japanese govenrment poked the bear and drew that down on their people.
the Emperor who could have stopped a lord of it go off scott free.
This post was edited on 8/18/23 at 8:23 pm
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