17-3-6 Garand Picture of the Day

[Mark in Rochester]

Wonder why there is so much interest.

Team members of the American battleship 'New Jersey' watching bathing Japanese prisoner of war.
During World War II in the Pacific theater of war, Americans of Japanese POWs washed, sheared, treated with anti-lice agent and clothed in American uniforms without insignia.

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[frankderrico]

I had to look to see the Garand, but did notice the sailor with a big club.

Best Regards.....Frank

[Bob Womack]

She was involved in more than one action that involved kamikaze attacks and had crew members injured by the defensive fire of another ship. If they picked up a kamikaze out of the water, that was always an extreme curiosity to the crew. As described by others, there was always a morbid sort of fascination with what sort of "monster" would try to kill them by such violent, horrid means that disregarded the safety of the perpetrator. It was often even more horrible to discover that the kamikazes were basically just young men like themselves with family and girlfriends. But just seeing the enemy was fascinating to most.*

Bob

* See Little Ship Big War by Ed Stafford

[browningautorifle]

the sailor with a big club

Just the shore patrol baton...old days it would have been a belaying pin. All you need to keep a naked man in line.

[Mark in Rochester]

one can wonder today what the press caption today might be

[CINDERS]

The ultimate humiliation, as they would have led him to a secure place like the brig so could have showered somewhere below decks. Not that one man could be a threat to 2,700 officers & men.

[Sarge1998]

The ultimate humiliation, as they would have led him to a secure place like the brig so could have showered somewhere below decks. Not that one man could be a threat to 2,700 officers & men.

You didn't watch the 1980 movie The Final Countdown!*


*Heavy use of sarcasm

[CINDERS]

Oh! and lets not forget BATTLESHIP where Mighty Mo defeats an alien mother ship and those 4 men carrying a 1 ton H.E.A.P shell the length of Might Mo by hand, then doing a drift turn using an anchor, Australians have a fair imagination but Hollywood takes it to a level of utter stupidity...............................!!!!*

Yes I did actually now that would be a sight a 100,000 ton A/C flying through space I bet Doctor Who flying his TARDIS if he saw it would say exactly what the mayor of Hiroshima said W T F was that!**

Mediocre use of sarcasm* , **

[Bob Womack]

The ultimate humiliation, as they would have led him to a secure place like the brig so could have showered somewhere below decks. Not that one man could be a threat to 2,700 officers & men.

One thing is brought to mind by the two buckets. If he was a sailor fished out of the sea after his ship was sunk he'd be covered with bunker oil. Perhaps one bucket is solvent and the other is water?

The Geneva Convention made shooting humiliating pictures of identifiable prisoners illegal so you do wonder.

Bob

[13Echo]

The Japanese did not sign, recognize, or follow the Geneva Convention and therefore were not required to be treated under its provisions if captured.