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[Mark Carver]

WWII Tokyo Trials Database Launched for Chinese, International Researchers

A Chinese university publisher has launched a literature database that covers trial records and evidence presented at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East following Japan's surrender during World War II (WWII), also known as Tokyo Trials.

The database, tokyotrial.cn, provides access to the entire Tokyo Trial records. Held from 1946 to 1948, the trials saw Japanese war criminals tried by Allied Forces.

 

The database currently contains documents amounting to 60 million words, 50 million of which are in English. It also contains 700 pictures and video records totaling 50 minutes, all featuring the trial and key figures involved.

 

The database will be further improved and made available in Chinese, English and Japanese, according to Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, the publisher of the database.

 

http://english.cri.c...3685s912091.htm

[Mark Carver]

The London bunker with space for 8,000: Inside the vast secret shelter 100ft under Clapham Common which was built to protect people from Nazi bombs
 

It was hand-built to protect thousands of people from terrifying bombing raids by Nazi Germany during the Blitz in the Second World War.

 

But the existence of the underground shelter beneath Clapham Common remains a complete secret to the vast majority of Londoners, even those who walk above it every day.

 

The shelter 'village' lies 100ft below ground and is made up of 1,300 tunnels and is big enough to cater up to 8,000 people, and have now become a special exhibition open to the public.

 

 

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail...l#ixzz3x2ZVVjAq 
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[Mark Carver]

First Man To Storm Nazi U-Boat And Seize Enigma Machine Dies

 

At the age of 95 Lieutenant Commander David Balme died a hero.

 

Credited with capturing the top-secret Enigma machine that turned the tide of the deadliest war ever fought and thus shortening it by two years, he helped save hundreds of thousands of lives across the world. 

 

As a sub-lieutenant on HMS Bulldog in 1941, Mr Balme led a boarding party on to the captured German submarine U-110, tasked with getting “whatever you can out of her – documents, books, charts, the wireless settings, anything like that."

 

 

http://forces.tv/88209506

[Mark Carver]

The Allies owe alot to the US Merchant Marine.

 

The U.S. Merchant Marine played an essential role in winning World War II, ferrying American troops and supplies into war zones at great risk -- but their contributions went largely unrewarded for decades.

 

Now, House members are trying to repay some surviving members of the Greatest Generation under a bipartisan plan to give them a one-time, $25,000 payout. 

 

The effort is being championed by California Democratic Rep. Janice Hahn, whose southern Los Angeles district includes the harbors and ports from which thousands of Merchant Mariners set sail during the war.

 

“The World War II Merchant Mariners are true heroes,” Hahn told FoxNews.com. She said the payout would give them the “recognition and honor they have long been denied for their wartime service and vital role in our military victory.” 

 

 

An estimated 9,000 mariners were killed and thousands more were wounded during the war.

http://www.foxnews.c...nor-payout.html

 

 

[Mark Carver]

From C-Span July 14, 2015

 

Richard Frank, author of Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire, spoke about the events leading up to Japan’s surrender at the end of World War II. He talked about American and Japanese strategies and operations in the closing months of the war, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan’s surrender, and the fall of the Japanese Empire.

http://www.c-span.or...japanese-empire

[Mark Carver]

Some nice photos of the USS New Jersey (BB-62). Check out the shells of the 16" guns in one photo,

 

 

http://www.argunners...d-massive-guns/

[RShack]

16" shells (Missouri class battleship)

 

[Russ]

They weigh about the same as a Volkswagen.

[Don Quixote]

Hopefully they have a good time.

 

http://pilotonline.c...ca84cd4f5e.html

[Mark Carver]

Omaha Beach Area, Normandy – Then & Now

 

The church’s steeple at Colleville-sur-Mer which served as a German observation post and sniper nest until naval gunfire from the USS Texas took it out later that morning. (Source: 16 Inf Rgt Assoc.)

 

More... http://argunners.com...a-normandy-now/

[Mark Carver]

The 380mm Rocket Laucher, Sturmtiger. Only 19 produced including a prototype. They fought in the Warsaw Uprising, Battle of the Bulge and Battle for the Reichswald. What a beast!

 

More pics - https://www.warhisto...Your Daily Dose

 

[Don Quixote]

Hopefully they have a good time.

 

http://pilotonline.c...ca84cd4f5e.html

 

Follow-up.

 

http://pilotonline.c...b2824730ce.html

[Mark Carver]

The astonishing interactive map that shows EVERY German bomb dropped on London during WW2 Blitz. Click the link below for the map. The map also list anti-invasion sites such as where anti-tank ditches were.

 

The site can tell people exactly when their area was hit, and even show photos from the period.

 

'The Bomb Sight project is mapping the London WW2 bomb census between 7/10/1940 and 06/06/1941,' the team say on their site.

 

'Previously available only by viewing in the Reading Room at The National Archives, Bomb Sight is making the maps available to citizen researchers, academics and students wanting to explore where the bombs fell and to discover memories and photographs from the period.

 

'We have combined the location of each of the falling bombs over an 8 month period of the London Blitz together with geo-located photographs from the Imperial War Museum and Geo-located Memories from the BBC WW2 People’s war archive.

 

The Bomb Sight is using the Bomb Census Map.

 

The maps are part of an extensive array of material collected during the Bomb Census Survey 1940 to 1945, organised by the Ministry of Home Security, and are held in The National Archive.

 

http://www.dailymail...ndon-Blitz.html

[Don Quixote]

John Wells, who led the charge to raise the first U.S. flag over Iwo Jima, dead at 94.

 

http://www.marinecor...-dies/80502730/

[Don Quixote]

Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown, the Royal Navy's most decorated pilot, dead at 97.

 

http://www.bbc.com/n...sussex-35626854

 

Somehow, this man was never named a knight.

[DJ MC]

Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown, the Royal Navy's most decorated pilot, dead at 97.

 

http://www.bbc.com/n...sussex-35626854

 

Somehow, this man was never named a knight.

 

Should've taught his horse to swim.

[McNulty]

Apologies if this was brought up already, but has anyone watched the WWII in Color series on Netflix?  Pretty awesome images and summary of the entire war.

[Mark Carver]

Apologies if this was brought up already, but has anyone watched the WWII in Color series on Netflix?  Pretty awesome images and summary of the entire war.

 

It's a very good series. I'd also recommend 26-part, The World at War series that came out in 1973. Available on YouTube. The only drawback is it's very light on the German/Soviet fighting as the old Soviet Union was still a closed society to the westerners.

 

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[Mark Carver]

71 years ago the famous flag raising occurred on Mt. Suribachi on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima.

 

 

10 stunning photos taken on Iwo Jima - https://www.funker53...en-on-iwo-jima/

[Don Quixote]

A selection from the Roger Freeman Collection, of photos related to American airmen in England during the war.

 

http://www.bbc.com/n...ctures-35699521