General Chat

If you want to know why we were right to drop the 2 A Bombs read a book called @Lighter then a feather'. It tells the fictional story of what the invasion of the main Japanese Islands would have been like had we not dropped the bombs. Up to half a million dead expected - on our side alone William You probably know that the Kings Liverpool Regiment were one of the units in the Chindits. My mothers neighbour was one of them - he was 18, and is still with us thank god

As it is not long to Rememberance day - prehaps we can remember, in whatever way we feel able, to do. Liz

Hi all I agree we need to know,as some people would never know what happend,my father was in Hiroshima and the photo's of the devistation half buildings standing the ground almost bare after the tidell wave that came.I remember him saying about the japs hanging grenades to fruit trees making them just like the fruit hanging there as soon as someone picked it boom!!! he said they were very cruel but clever.We don't no how lucky we are for all our soldiers most gave their lives for us. Jill

William I think 'The Knights of Bushido' was written by a different Russell - Earl Russell of Liverpool? - who also wrote a parallel work on the Nazis and their beguiling ways, 'The Scourge of the Swastika'. I read these and their like avidly as a teenager but now am sickened by them. Nonetheless, we will always need to know..... Mike

Right on, William! Definitely non-PC but I agree totally. Have you read 'The Naked Island' by the late Russell Braddon? He refers to one of his erstwhile captors, in Changi, I think of the Kempei-tai, as 'one of the regrettably few Japanese to commit hara-kiri'. How can one improve on that!?! Mike

William, Thanks very much - what a mine of information you are!! Apart from family history, I like history in general. Might deviate and look into the chindits a bit further. Thanks again Liz

Might be a silly question - BUT what are/who are the Chindits? Liz

Nudge, nudge! Keith