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Oppenheimer

Chopper

Just saw it. Went in with sky high expectations; They were exceeded. Awesome movie. Very intense, very cerebral, and very enlightening. Had quite an interesting convo with Mrs. Chopper afterwards over dinner about the ending of WWII and the never ending debate about dropping the bombs vs invading Japan. See it on the biggest possible screen and go in with your bladder bone dry.

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how2fish

The Japanese killed at least 100,000 withdrawing from the Philippines. Manila was a slaughter house by the time they were subdued.

donniem

https://forum.dawgnation.com/discussion/comment/698821#Comment_698821

My dad was a P-51 pilot and shot down 3 German planes before being shot out of the sky. He spent 14 months in a German POW camp before the war ended. he didn't ever talk to much about it but I recall saying they received "care packages" and Red Cross aid and there were German guards who would trade extra food and stuff for some of what came in the care packages.

As a short aside, he would tell stories about seeing the first ever jet planes that the Germans developed just before the war's end. I wish he would have told us more. It was great history.

pgjackson

Here's a little about how the Japanese conquered Korea in the early 1900's. Again, the Japanese saw themselves as a master race and Koreans as primitive.

https://www.history.com/news/japan-colonization-korea

PerroGrande

https://forum.dawgnation.com/discussion/comment/698840#Comment_698840

Cool story, Don. With that record, your dad would have been a celebrity at an Air Force gathering. The bomber crews loved the P51 guys because the Mustang was the first fighter that could stay with them all the way to Germany; that increased the risk for the Mustang pilots substantially. The P38s and P47s turned back before the nastiest part of the mission because they ran out of gas. I've heard some interesting talks on the Luft Stalags, and of course the story of "The Great Escape" was centered in one. It's too bad you couldn't have interviewed your father on tape. I'm sure he had some fascinating experiences!

christopherules

Mike Bobo is:

https://twitter.com/BassinDawg/status/1686010908944818182?s=20

GO DAWGS!!!!

donniem

https://forum.dawgnation.com/discussion/comment/699547#Comment_699547

He is become the destroyer of defenses...