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Re: A Green Cross To Bear - the Japanese surrender flights

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 6:40 pm
by The Marshal
Good stuff!
That picture with the soldier with the flowers... ouch!

Re: A Green Cross To Bear - the Japanese surrender flights

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 6:48 pm
by howdy
Very interesting. Thanks for posting.

Re: A Green Cross To Bear - the Japanese surrender flights

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 7:12 pm
by Setxjeff
WOW Learn something new every day.

Re: A Green Cross To Bear - the Japanese surrender flights

Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 9:22 pm
by RetNavy
thanks for the posting.... this was something that is never taught or covered in history classes.... very informative

Re: A Green Cross To Bear - the Japanese surrender flights

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 7:47 am
by Steamboat
Very interesting information. Thanks for posting!

Re: A Green Cross To Bear - the Japanese surrender flights

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 10:11 am
by Dragonfighter
Fascinating. I am a major aviation geek AND consider myself erudite in WW2 history. I have never heard about the Green Cross flights. Thank you.

Re: A Green Cross To Bear - the Japanese surrender flights

Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 9:41 pm
by Bobby23
Used to drive by/to Atsugi NAS a bunch and would almost always think about MacArthur landing there for the first time before the official surrender ceremony.

Re: A Green Cross To Bear - the Japanese surrender flights

Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 6:43 am
by The Annoyed Man
Dragonfighter wrote:Fascinating. I am a major aviation geek AND consider myself erudite in WW2 history. I have never heard about the Green Cross flights. Thank you.
Ditto, and me neither. It really makes you appreciate the complexities of surrendering one military to another when spread over such vast distances. Not quite the same as Appomatox Courthouse.

Re: A Green Cross To Bear - the Japanese surrender flights

Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 12:50 pm
by shooter76blue
They should have arranged the surrender at Pearl Harbor...

Re: A Green Cross To Bear - the Japanese surrender flights

Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2014 5:49 pm
by Bobby23
The formal surrender right in Tokyo Bay was pretty spectacular. The might of the Pacific Fleet safely at anchor in Japanese home waters, documents signed on the deck of a battleship, with waves of combat aircraft flying overhead -- it was an awesome show of force and a scene we'll never see the like of again.