+ Reply to Thread
Page 2 of 3 FirstFirst 1 2 3 LastLast
Results 11 to 20 of 25

Thread: Valentines day.............not as happy for some.

Click here to increase the font size Click here to reduce the font size
  1. #11
    Contributing Member Flying10uk's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2015
    Last On
    Yesterday @ 10:53 PM
    Location
    UK
    Posts
    5,075
    Local Date
    03-29-2024
    Local Time
    02:06 AM
    I think that we should also remember the thousands of ethnic Chinese civilians who are thought to have been murdered in cold blood during the first few days of Japanicon's occupation of Singapore, simply because they were of Chinese origin.

  2. # ADS
    Friends and Sponsors
    Join Date
    October 2006
    Location
    Milsurps.Com
    Posts
    All Threads
    A Collector's View - The SMLE Short Magazine Lee Enfield 1903-1989. It is 300 8.5x11 inch pages with 1,000+ photo’s, most in color, and each book is serial-numbered.  Covering the SMLE from 1903 to the end of production in India in 1989 it looks at how each model differs and manufacturer differences from a collecting point of view along with the major accessories that could be attached to the rifle. For the record this is not a moneymaker, I hope just to break even, eventually, at $80/book plus shipping.  In the USA shipping is $5.00 for media mail.  I will accept PayPal, Zelle, MO and good old checks (and cash if you want to stop by for a tour!).  CLICK BANNER to send me a PM for International pricing and shipping. Manufacturer of various vintage rifle scopes for the 1903 such as our M73G4 (reproduction of the Weaver 330C) and Malcolm 8X Gen II (Unertl reproduction). Several of our scopes are used in the CMP Vintage Sniper competition on top of 1903 rifles. Brian Dick ... BDL Ltd. - Specializing in British and Commonwealth weapons Specializing in premium ammunition and reloading components. Your source for the finest in High Power Competition Gear. Here at T-bones Shipwrighting we specialise in vintage service rifle: re-barrelling, bedding, repairs, modifications and accurizing. We also provide importation services for firearms, parts and weapons, for both private or commercial businesses.
     

  3. #12
    Legacy Member Paul S.'s Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2009
    Last On
    04-08-2020 @ 06:58 PM
    Location
    Back and forth between Sydney and Southern California
    Posts
    1,594
    Local Date
    03-28-2024
    Local Time
    09:06 PM
    There is the Banka Island massacre as well: http://www.pacificwar.org.au/JapWarC..._Massacre.html

    The list goes on, and on.

  4. Thank You to Paul S. For This Useful Post:


  5. Avoid Ads - Become a Contributing Member - Click HERE
  6. #13
    Contributing Member Flying10uk's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2015
    Last On
    Yesterday @ 10:53 PM
    Location
    UK
    Posts
    5,075
    Local Date
    03-29-2024
    Local Time
    02:06 AM
    That is the reason that I, personally, avoid buying anything that is made in Japanicon if I can possibly help it.

  7. #14
    Contributing Member CINDERS's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2009
    Last On
    03-25-2024 @ 11:01 AM
    Location
    South West Western Australia
    Posts
    7,734
    Real Name
    CINDERS
    Local Date
    03-29-2024
    Local Time
    10:06 AM
    Awesome 4 corners, I feel the author surmising and not interviewing the Australianicon soldier who left Singapore re entered the fighting on Java only then to endure the captivity was a mistake on his part as he took for gospel what another author had written this I found repugnant, for a start the soldier was only 23 y/o and totally untrained I mean they gave him a Bren which he had never seen before or fired how was he to cope with a stoppage or choked gas cylinder without training!
    Also the Australian soldiers acquitted themselves well killing 18,000 of the 30,000 casualties the IJA suffered in the Singapore campaign I do not think that authors book will find its way here as it is to flavoured by facts from other books and the authors spin on things.

    Great story Badger thanks for that bloke.

  8. #15
    Advisory Panel Surpmil's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2008
    Last On
    @
    Location
    West side
    Posts
    4,651
    Local Date
    03-28-2024
    Local Time
    07:06 PM
    Churchill at least once said that what was needed in the Middle East theatre was a field court martial and a firing squad. What was needed in Singapore?

    For pure viciousness the atrocities at the hospital in Hong Kong beat even that; I won't recount them here. Brigadier Lawson ought to be remembered for his example.

    Not sure what Percival's problem was. He certainly was not afraid of upsetting civilians when he was fighting the IRA in Cork.

    If Ironside had been sent things might have been very different, but he was probably too senior for the job by then.
    Last edited by Surpmil; 03-07-2017 at 10:45 AM.
    “There are invisible rulers who control the destinies of millions. It is not generally realized to what extent the words and actions of our most influential public men are dictated by shrewd persons operating behind the scenes.”

    Edward Bernays, 1928

    Much changes, much remains the same.

  9. #16
    Contributing Member CINDERS's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2009
    Last On
    03-25-2024 @ 11:01 AM
    Location
    South West Western Australia
    Posts
    7,734
    Real Name
    CINDERS
    Local Date
    03-29-2024
    Local Time
    10:06 AM
    Even worse was Manila and the Japaneseicon in China there are some ghastly graphic images out there of both campaigns especially where Manila was declared an open city did not phase the IJA somewhere in my library is a book where they raped the nurses for days on end and other women pregnant or not then bayoneted/hacked/shot them. Somehow this nurse survived to tell her story after the war it was god awful reading tolerance is a thing to be practiced but at times its hard to let bygones be bygones. It is not the generations following the conflicts fault or to pay penance but you have to wonder about the mindset of tradition..............if it all started again.

  10. #17
    Advisory Panel
    Peter Laidler's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2008
    Last On
    03-24-2024 @ 09:52 AM
    Location
    Abingdon, Oxfordshire. The home of MG Cars
    Posts
    16,507
    Real Name
    Peter Laidler
    Local Date
    03-29-2024
    Local Time
    04:06 AM
    The BIG lesson learned from the fall of Singapore that we all learned - and still holds good today - is that there will NEVER again be a situation where you have uni-trained/uni competent soldiers as happened in backwater Singapore (and Egypt apparently.....). Where they learn their trade as cooks, bottlewashers, clerks, blanket stackers etc......... They are ALL DUAL-trained. First as soldiers who can fight, live and survive and only then will they be trade trained. This feature is still drummed into the higher echelons of the recruit training system. They call it OMNI-competent and quite right too

  11. The Following 3 Members Say Thank You to Peter Laidler For This Useful Post:


  12. #18
    Contributing Member Gil Boyd's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2013
    Last On
    02-28-2024 @ 11:09 AM
    Location
    Home of The Parachute Regiment & 16 Air Assault Brigade
    Posts
    4,772
    Real Name
    Gil Boyd
    Local Date
    03-29-2024
    Local Time
    02:06 AM
    Peter,
    Absolutely right, gone are the days of a drummer boy at the front, or a lone piper leading troops into battle (not so long ago WW2) they do need to know how to defend themselves and others first, as it is for the man beside you that you fight to survive, and Queen and country second!!
    'Tonight my men and I have been through hell and back again, but the look on your faces when we let you out of the hall - we'd do it all again tomorrow.' Major Chris Keeble's words to Goose Green villagers on 29th May 1982 - 2 PARA

  13. The Following 2 Members Say Thank You to Gil Boyd For This Useful Post:


  14. #19
    Legacy Member Paul S.'s Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2009
    Last On
    04-08-2020 @ 06:58 PM
    Location
    Back and forth between Sydney and Southern California
    Posts
    1,594
    Local Date
    03-28-2024
    Local Time
    09:06 PM
    Too right. 'Every soldier is a Rifleman first.' That is as is should and must be.

    It doesn't matter if you are the best paper shufflers or computer geeks in the army. Without being trained, equipped and capable as an infantryman, you are lambs for the slaughter and useless.

  15. #20
    Contributing Member Flying10uk's Avatar
    Join Date
    Feb 2015
    Last On
    Yesterday @ 10:53 PM
    Location
    UK
    Posts
    5,075
    Local Date
    03-29-2024
    Local Time
    02:06 AM
    The father of one of my school headmasters was captured by the Japaneseicon in the Far East during WW2. Although I don't believe that he spoke much of his time in captivity, one thing that I do recall that was mentioned by him was that the Japanese provided him and fellow P.O.W's with seeds because they were expected to grow some of their own food. How much actual food was provided and how much was expected to be grown I am not sure but judging from pictures of P.O.W. released in 1945 very little actual food was provided.

+ Reply to Thread
Page 2 of 3 FirstFirst 1 2 3 LastLast

Similar Threads

  1. I am very happy!
    By Luis Bren in forum The Lee Enfield Knowledge Library Collectors Forum
    Replies: 40
    Last Post: 03-27-2017, 09:12 PM
  2. I Know A Boy Who Is Going To Be Happy
    By frankderrico in forum The Watering Hole OT (Off Topic) Forum
    Replies: 7
    Last Post: 12-26-2016, 11:19 AM
  3. Happy Birthday dear Jesus, happy birthday to you...
    By WarPig1976 in forum Milsurps General Discussion Forum
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: 12-25-2013, 08:12 AM
  4. Happy Birthday Guy JR
    By Badger in forum The Watering Hole OT (Off Topic) Forum
    Replies: 0
    Last Post: 08-12-2011, 01:01 AM

Tags for this Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
Raven Rocks