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22 Jun 11 - 10:42 AM (#3174516) Subject: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: olddude This is a wonderful yard sale find. It is a WWII Army air corp propaganda leaflet that was dropped on Japan. I found out that they dropped these things weeks before the bomb. I have no idea what it reads. Gotta get someone to translate. Very interesting. leaflet back Anyone read Japanese?? |
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22 Jun 11 - 11:16 AM (#3174540) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: Bill D I suppose it said, in a less poetic way, what Bruce Phillips said in his song 'Enola Gay' "Look out, look out from your school room window Look up young children from your play Your bright young eyes will turn to ashes In the blinding light of Enola Gay " |
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22 Jun 11 - 11:21 AM (#3174546) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: olddude Or it reads "one last smoke" What a gift to mankind that thing was huh |
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22 Jun 11 - 12:13 PM (#3174585) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: Little Hawk It probably warns people to flee from the metropolitan areas, because those areas face imminent destruction from the American Air Force. Conventional bombing was a tremendous threat too (more people were killed in one night by the conventional firebombing of Tokyo than by either atomic bomb drop), and it was a standard tactic to try to scare the urban population into abandoning their homes and fleeing to rural areas...thus abandoning their jobs in Japanese war industries and the general infrastructure, thus lessening Japan's ability to fight the war. That was the intent. I doubt that there was much real concern about the lives of Japanese civilians, but if you could get them to abandon the cities, then you could basically destroy the Japanese economy. The same tactics were applied in Germany, but (fortunately) without resorting to atomic weapons. Cities were still destroyed quite effectively, in any case, by means of ordinary conventional bombing. |
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22 Jun 11 - 01:45 PM (#3174643) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: olddude Thanks LH I bet you are right |
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22 Jun 11 - 02:17 PM (#3174678) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: Q (Frank Staplin) Years ago I picked up a Canadian WW2 National HRO receiver at a surplus store. Heavy, and with a thick metal plate meant to be mounted in a panel, and a separate transformer, I enjoyed listening to short wave broadcasts, ship communications, etc., for a long time. It stopped working- probably one of the 12 tubes quit- and I never bothered to fix it. All the pbs FM, etc., had come in (it had no insert for the FM band) and I lost interest. I am looking for a home for it. There is a large military museum here, perhaps they might be interested. At a yard sale I picked up some old aircraft dials and the restorer people were very happy to get them. |
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22 Jun 11 - 02:51 PM (#3174699) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: olddude Q anything from the air war in WWII is pretty valuable for sure. I sold an original fighter jacket that I got at a thrift store and got 500 bucks for it. PS. I donated the money back to them |
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22 Jun 11 - 03:09 PM (#3174710) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: gnu I found some books in the basement when I was about 12. The covers stated "TOP SECRET. Unauthorized possession is punishable by not less than two years plus a day in Federal Penetentiary." I thought they were cool when I read about stuff like how to use molasses and newspaper to break glass with little noise. The subversive warfare tactics were a bit beyond my comperehension at the time. My old man, retired RCAF, caught me reading them and they disappeared. Along with the grenades (the old man liked to fish... hehehehee) and switchblade and pistol and machine pistols and other stuff. Ya know, a 38 Parachuten will bring game wardens from miles away if you target practice at the camp. |
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22 Jun 11 - 03:10 PM (#3174712) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: John MacKenzie Loads here . You need to go to about p25 in the WWII list of leaflets, before you get to Japanese ones. |
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22 Jun 11 - 04:35 PM (#3174772) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: olddude John Thank you my friend, so kind of you ... I found it but it says "text unknown" my luck huh .... it confirms 1945 however |
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22 Jun 11 - 04:50 PM (#3174782) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: Little Hawk I've got an old calculating machine here that must be from the 20s, 30s or 40s. It belonged to my grandmother. It's made of metal, shiny black, heavy, with a whole bunch of numbers and metal sliders and little handles you turn to make it work. It adds, subtracts, multiplies, and divides. Sort of like a primitive mechanically operated math computer. Boy, is it ever heavy! It was apparently made in Goteborg and is under the brand "Original Odhner". I should probably try selling it on Ebay, but shipping it would be costly. |
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22 Jun 11 - 04:56 PM (#3174785) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: olddude Well you probably should ebay it LH ... I got the leaflet on ebay right now. I always do that and then spend the money on more just ... well except for the pocket watches that I want ... don't consider them junk .. LOL |
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22 Jun 11 - 05:39 PM (#3174806) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: Georgiansilver Is it like this LH?? |
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22 Jun 11 - 06:09 PM (#3174830) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: Little Hawk That one is almost identical, GS. Thanks for the link! |
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22 Jun 11 - 06:33 PM (#3174843) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: olddude LH that is a rare piece, you will get a good price for it |
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22 Jun 11 - 09:35 PM (#3174935) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: SINSULL Wakan, Brett's (Naemanson) wife, is Japanese. See the Guam threads. She is a sweetheart and will help, I am sure. Hope it doesn't stir up unhappy memories. |
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22 Jun 11 - 10:01 PM (#3174946) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: olddude Thanks Mary you sweetie |
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22 Jun 11 - 10:36 PM (#3174958) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: Rapparee I've got WWII maps of North and South China printed on the same piece of heavy silk -- these were issued as part of the survival, evasion, and escape gear. It was given to me by a friend (a nurse) who was given it by one of her homebound people. No, I don't plan to get rid of it. |
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23 Jun 11 - 06:26 PM (#3175441) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: Donuel I have silk maps of Japan and CHina that pilots would have used in WW2 but were found unused and warehoused in San Diego too. |
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23 Jun 11 - 06:33 PM (#3175448) Subject: RE: BS: Interesting WWII Yard sale find From: olddude WWII stuff goes for top dollar on ebay. My buddie sold a submarine pin for 400 bucks. I put the leaflet on and someone jumped on it in about 5 minutes. In yard sales that is one of the things to look for. |