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VJ Day, Honolulu Hawaii, August 14, 1945
vimeo.com ^ | 05/20/10 | Richard Sullivan

Posted on 05/26/2012 7:46:49 AM PDT by Doogle

How it was 1945, on VJ Day. Kodachrome 16mm film. Honolulu.

(Excerpt) Read more at vimeo.com ...


TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: honolulu; howitwas; vjday; worldwar2; wwii
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1 posted on 05/26/2012 7:47:10 AM PDT by Doogle
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To: Doogle

http://vimeo.com/5645171


2 posted on 05/26/2012 7:48:08 AM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Chode

ping


3 posted on 05/26/2012 7:48:37 AM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Doogle

Thank you so much for posting. Seeing it in color makes it look so different than most WWII-era videos——much more recent, more “real”, somehow. And it makes me cry, because my dad was still in Europe then, and I wonder what he was doing that day.


4 posted on 05/26/2012 8:02:04 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: CatherineofAragon

My dad had mostly recovered from burns suffered in a crash landing of his C-46 in India and had been informed that his services might be required again in the planned invasion of Japan in late 1945. He was a Hump Pilot in the CBI Campaign.

I can only imagine the relief he and others felt when the VJ news was made public.


5 posted on 05/26/2012 8:14:11 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

God bless your dad....those injuries must have been awful.

The Japan invasion would definitely have happened. My dad was in the Battle of the Bulge, and after a rest, he would have gone, as well. Neither of us would probably be here if they hadn’t bombed Hiroshima & Nagasaki.


6 posted on 05/26/2012 8:21:20 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: Doogle
lucky them, my Dad was on board ship in the Pacific... but they were doing their job in Hawaii too and it's a good video
7 posted on 05/26/2012 8:27:48 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Doogle; SkyDancer

Great!
Janey... You’ll love this!


8 posted on 05/26/2012 8:38:02 AM PDT by Northern Yankee (Where Liberty dwells, there is my Country. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Northern Yankee

Hi - saw it several months ago. But yeah, it’s great. My eyeball peepers are full of sand about now so gonna hit the bed. Take care ... Janey


9 posted on 05/26/2012 8:42:17 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("Talent Without Ambition Is Sad - Ambition Without Talent Is Worse")
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To: Doogle

Good stuff. Thanks.


10 posted on 05/26/2012 8:50:06 AM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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To: Doogle

Pretty cool footage. Of course, most of the time I was watching I couldn’t help but think “Yeah, nowadays, they’d be ticketed, they’d be arrested, ticketed, ticketed, arrested...”


11 posted on 05/26/2012 8:58:59 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: CatherineofAragon
"My dad was in the Battle of the Bulge, and after a rest, he would have gone, as well. "

Yep that's the way it was. I had been part of that too. We were in occupation in Austria awaiting orders. No one had been released from the Army. But now the war was over we could go home. It was August I was 19. I couldn't vote. Nine months to go for my turn to go home. Then Life begins. Thank you Pres Truman.

12 posted on 05/26/2012 9:07:17 AM PDT by ex-snook ("above all things, truth beareth away the victory")
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To: Doogle
My Dad was a family doctor serving a rural area and was thus not drafted during the war, but he told some very poignant stories of the war on the home front. He talked about being called to the local railroad depot where the depot agent had just received the telegram from the War Department that his own son was killed in action.
13 posted on 05/26/2012 9:29:05 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: Doogle

I had some ‘short snorters’ which my uncle sent me shortly after the war. He was a navigator on a B29 flying bombing missions over Japan. Upon his death many years ago, I gave them to his eldest son, my younger cousin.

As I recall, it was Chinese paper money taped together in a string, signed and dated by his fellow crew members after each mission. I wonder if this tradition is still carried on in today’s USAF?


14 posted on 05/26/2012 9:29:19 AM PDT by shove_it (just undo it)
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To: ex-snook

Thank you so much for your service.

It was 1946 before my dad made it home.


15 posted on 05/26/2012 9:35:17 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon (Time for a write-in campaign...Darryl Dixon for President)
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To: ex-snook
My father would have gone in as well, just behind the combat troops. He was the lead heavy equipment operator / regimental machine shop supervisor in the Army Engineer regiment with the most time in the Pacific Theater. MacArthur had asked for the regiment to back him up.

They built the airfields just behind the front lines across the pacific. Saipan, Okinawa and others I no longer remember. They were close enough to the fighting on Okinawa that my father said they would occasionally get a stray artillery shell landing on the field.

16 posted on 05/26/2012 9:41:21 AM PDT by jimtorr
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To: Future Snake Eater
Great footage from Honolulu, where it all begin. One woman even framed Pearl Harbor in the background with her hands, smiling, as if to say, "You started it here, but we evened the score, enemies, and now we stomp on your fallen Rising Sun battle flag." The color images are really in extreme start contrast to our vanquished enemy across the Pacific. At about that same time, later in the day (five hours difference) they were literally starving to death in Tokyo, people were bowing down before the Imperial Palace and sobbing and weeping bitterly.

Some truly could not bear it and went on to shoot or stab themselves to death after the Emperor came on the air at noon, 15 August 1945. Others believed the fascist Imperial Jap Tojo-clique propaganda that said once the hairy, drunk, stinky huge Americans arrived in Japan in droves they would a) rape all the small, local women (with their large prowesses--no kidding, they said this), and b) eat the Japanese kids. So many of them also went into hiding, smeared human excrement on their bodies (the pretty looking Japanese women who also cut their hair short and put on men's clothing), and others who sadly and uncessarily committed suicide for fear of being violated by the landing conquerors. Tokyo was one huge flat, bombed out parking lot. A real contrast to ebullient downtown Honolulu with pretty girls in cut offs and happy, shirtless, suntanned guys. Total victory and jublilation on one side, and total loss of a face and dejection on the other. This is the kind of absolute victory that Obama once said made him "uncomfortable about America." Traitor.


17 posted on 05/26/2012 9:43:21 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (A great victory for Free People. The day Salvador Allende was toppled. Study history. Learn lessons.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

I was in Sagamihara and Yokohama, 1951-1961 and recall large areas of blackened, bombed out areas near Camp Zama.
There was a family living in a large cave not too far from our home. Japan didn’t really recover from the war until the 1960s.


18 posted on 05/26/2012 10:02:05 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Future Snake Eater

bingo


19 posted on 05/26/2012 10:37:21 AM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: shove_it

http://www.101airborneww2.com/souvenirs.html


20 posted on 05/26/2012 10:39:53 AM PDT by Doogle (((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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