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Martinjmpr
08-15-2018, 11:36
August 15, 1945, 73 years ago today, Japan surrendered and WWII officially ended.

[Salute]
Skip
08-15-2018, 11:54
So much we take for granted!

To be signed Sept 2nd on Missouri...

https://imgur.com/XJwLwNh.jpg
https://imgur.com/NMfTf8Y.jpg
Gman
08-15-2018, 14:47
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Mazin
08-15-2018, 14:55
So much we take for granted!

To be signed Sept 2nd on Missouri...

https://imgur.com/XJwLwNh.jpg
https://imgur.com/NMfTf8Y.jpg


Agreed!
[Marine][Salute]
ray1970
08-15-2018, 17:37
I have one of the photos posted above. I’m not a good photographer though so I forgot to get my shadow in the picture.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180815/727b4fc27e34cbf4662d5b8d0a377814.jpeg
Skip
08-15-2018, 17:44
I have one of the photos posted above. I’m not a good photographer though so I forgot to get my shadow in the picture.

https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180815/727b4fc27e34cbf4662d5b8d0a377814.jpeg

[LOL]

Yeah, I should have included my toes. I did get the pics nice and blurry though.

Arizona, Missouri, and the National Pacific Memorial/Cemetery are really the gems of Honolulu. We should have spent much more time doing these. So much history and so many lives lost.

(Forgive me if I've posted these before)

https://imgur.com/3p4oYey.jpg

Many never recovered...

https://imgur.com/pQAmig1.jpg
Bailey Guns
08-15-2018, 19:21
I kinda look upon it as the "Day We Saved The World...Again".

This article was in the local paper last week. They do a "Flashback" page and this particular one was a report on the firebombing of Japanese cities by over 500 B-29s. It's too bad we don't fight wars any longer with the same attitude we did back then.

https://i.imgur.com/z7iKlyL.jpg
Joe_K
08-15-2018, 20:01
I’m celebrating VJ Day by taking the family to P.F. Chang’s. Should have gone to a Japanese restaurant, but the Ball N’ Chain needed Beef fried rice.
JohnnyDrama
08-15-2018, 20:53
Good catch Martinjumper.


I kinda look upon it as the "Day We Saved The World...Again".

This article was in the local paper last week. They do a "Flashback" page and this particular one was a report on the firebombing of Japanese cities by over 500 B-29s. It's too bad we don't fight wars any longer with the same attitude we did back then.

https://i.imgur.com/z7iKlyL.jpg

I find it interesting that the date on that paper is the day Hiroshima was bombed. It made me realize I didn't hear anything about that this year....
Bailey Guns
08-16-2018, 06:35
Yeah...news didn't travel quite so fast back in those days. I was surprised that didn't "Flashback" to that event (either of them).
wctriumph
08-16-2018, 14:07
I was born 10 years to the day of the surrender in Tokyo Bay, my first girlfriend was born December 8, 1961, 20 years to the day that we declared war on Japan and entered WWII.
ChickNorris
08-16-2018, 14:13
I was born 10 years to the day of the surrender in Tokyo Bay, my first girlfriend was born December 8, 1961, 20 years to the day that we declared war on Japan and entered WWII.75713