60 Years Ago This Week

xoxoxoBruce · 08-07-2005, 05:37 PM

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Did they have tiny rifles for the infants and toddlers?

No, their mothers were prepared to kill them if all was lost. The "civilians", anyone that could walk, had knives, spears, homemade grenades, some guns(ammo was a problem) but many of them were muzzle loaders. They were organized to reinforce a militia of several hundred thousand old men and boys. If you don't believe they were serious just look at the films from the islands of women throwing their children off the cliffs, before they themselves jumped, rather than surrender.......and that wasn't even the homeland.

Dr. Zaius · 08-07-2005, 10:40 PM

Some images of a new role for Japanese women. Pressed into service for Home Island defence with obsolete rifles, or whatever could be found. Don't know how long they would have lasted against Allied tanks but it would have made for some ugly newsreel footage.

(Kikuchi Shunkichi) Women training with bamboo spears, 1945

(Kageyama Kôyô) Neighbourhood Association women training with rifles, 1943

08-07-2005, 10:40 PM	#2
Dr. Zaius Superior Inhabitant Join Date: May 2003 Location: Ape City Posts: 73	Some images of a new role for Japanese women. Pressed into service for Home Island defence with obsolete rifles, or whatever could be found. Don't know how long they would have lasted against Allied tanks but it would have made for some ugly newsreel footage. (Kikuchi Shunkichi) Women training with bamboo spears, 1945 (Kageyama Kôyô) Neighbourhood Association women training with rifles, 1943 Last edited by Dr. Zaius; 08-07-2005 at 10:45 PM.

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