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Archae

(46,340 posts)
Sat Apr 4, 2015, 12:16 AM Apr 2015

70 years ago, next week.

A desperate plan was put into action by the Japanese high command, they gave their mightiest battleship, the Yamato, only enough fuel to get to Okinawa where it was to beach itself and shell US positions.

The ship was intercepted by US carrier aircraft, and pounded into scrap, before it sank on April 7th.

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70 years ago, next week. (Original Post) Archae Apr 2015 OP
"Ghost Riders in the Sky"- lol jomin41 Apr 2015 #1
Don't be ridiculous Downtown Hound Apr 2015 #4
Carrier? Archae Apr 2015 #5
Yasukuni Shrine yuiyoshida Apr 2015 #2
Thank-you for posting! SkyDaddy7 Apr 2015 #3
you're most welcome yuiyoshida Apr 2015 #6

jomin41

(559 posts)
1. "Ghost Riders in the Sky"- lol
Sat Apr 4, 2015, 07:28 AM
Apr 2015

oddly fitting soundtrack. Hey, was that O'Reilly in one of those U.S. planes?

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
4. Don't be ridiculous
Sat Apr 4, 2015, 10:22 AM
Apr 2015

Everybody knows that O'Reilly was the one who actually blew up the Carrier by swimming to it from Hawaii and planting a bomb on its side.

yuiyoshida

(41,835 posts)
2. Yasukuni Shrine
Sat Apr 4, 2015, 07:29 AM
Apr 2015




Yasukuni Shrine ( Yasukuni Jinja?) is a Shinto shrine in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. It was founded by Emperor Meiji and commemorates anyone who had died in service of the Empire of Japan, which existed from the Meiji Restoration of 1868 until the nation was renamed during the Allied occupation in 1947. The shrine's purpose has been expanded over the years to include those who died in the wars involving Japan spanning from the entire Meiji and Taishō period, and lesser part of the Shōwa period.

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Not only soldiers' spirits are enshrined here, but also other people are enshrined. There are women and school girls divinities who were involved in relief operation on battlefields, a great number of students who went to work in factories for the war effort. There also enshrined ordinary Japanese citizens, Taiwanese and Korean people died as Japanese, the people who died during the Siberian detaining, and who were labeled war criminals and executed after having been tried by the Allies.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasukuni_Shrine

http://www.yasukuni.or.jp/english/about/deities.html
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