I'm back. Been busy with school. I'm a junior going for a degree in History. My Great Uncle's records continue to yield interesting information....
Hello comrades, It's been awhile and I'm back. I'm trying to translate this Japanese flag that a fellow collector has but has difficulty...
I'm reading about the Bilibid Prison right now, Takao. It says that approximately 1,000 patients were in the hospital there and because of the...
Thanks for your help, all. According to the paperwork, it lists that he was in Bataan and Corregidor and surrendered with those respective units....
Good and sad news. The records of my relative, Great-Uncle Henry McMillan, corporal of the 4th Marine Regiment, finally came in. About two inches...
Greetings comrades, I have a fellow reenactor that needs help identifying this enameled cooking pot he owns. It has a factory stamp of a large T...
I agree. A lot of the other movies such as Flying Tigers also cemented them. When I was little, I thought it was funny, but grown up-I shake my...
I've gone back to the John Wayne movies. Right now I'm watching "The Fighting Seabees" (1944) and laughing at how poor the Japanese are portrayed....
I purchased a Japanese belt, two ammo pouches, and a grenade box with oiler. I believe them to be originals as they are better quality than the...
I'm 1/4 Japanese with my father's mother being a nurse for the Imperial Japanese Army during the war. She told me a great deal of stories about...
Washington State, on the Olympic Peninsula.
I was given a Japanese dog tag for Christmas and need help translating it. Someone has taken a machine to it and removed what I would guess was...
There was another story of the Oglala. She had been laid up for so long that when they finally tried to put her out to sea, they found a birds...
I'm sorry, but I got your post confused with another post, about the underwater drone captured by China. Indeed, I know of the Sullivan Brothers,...
I know nothing of this incident, but let's keep it World War II oriented.
I have wondered how many Navy captains were removed from their posts because of sheer incompetence. I know that in the case of future Scientology...
For the 75th Anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack, I had the honor of attending the memorial and meeting many of the survivors, including four...
I only know from what my family has told me. I hope that once I get his records I can delve into it further.
It's true that they do get promoted while in captivity, as well as back pay, but a prisoner could get denied those things if it was shown to have...
I do have a picture of him, but I don't have my camera with me at the moment. His name is Sgt. William Lee McMillan. According to his paperwork...
