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The National WWII Museum in New Orleans presents a range of real-life scenarios that give visitors a sense of the ethical — and often dangerous — decisions soldiers and civilians were forced to make during the war.

The katana "shin gunto" traditional military sword in japanese army, was given to officers to remember samurais history. Kamikazes or navy officers had too a katana during the war nomarly done in a poor quality but some of them used old traditional katanas given by their families from fathers to sons .After the war us troops had the order of requise all katanas and hundreds of them were destroyed but a important quantity arrived to USA by american soldiers.

The image of the dusty highway tapering off into the sweltering horizon is as much a trope as a reality of American life, but photographer Noel Kerns has decided to alter that perception

Part 13 of a weekly 20-part retrospective of World War II

The Second World War contained plenty of oddities that are left out of most history books. Did you know that Germany had divisions of foreign-born soldiers? Read on to learn more.

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1898 - Twelve noon of this date is calendared as the day for a general uprising by Filipino revolutionary leader Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy during the so-called second phase of the Philippine Revolution against Spain; Aguinaldo, who had a year earlier wrested revolutionary leadership from President Andres Bonifacio y de Castro (Supremo of the underground-society-turned-revolutionary-government Kataastaasang Kagalanggalangang Katipunan nang manga Anak nang Bayan), forged an alliance with the Americans, stupidly believing American Commodore George Dewey's deceptive assurances that United States is an ally against Spain; upon Dewey's advice, Aguinaldo will later allow US troops to freely enter Philippine territory and before long, the Americans will reveal their sinister imperialistic design and invade the Philippines, with the enemy generals instigating the Philippine-American War (1899-1914) on February 4, 1899 under the vile pre-arranged plan of Bald Eagle President William McKinley to precipitate a war in the bid to trick the U.S. Senate to approve the Treaty of Paris and thus secure approval and funding for military operations to annex [read:invade] the Philippines as part of the imperialist policy for America's overseas expansion. Photo credit: https://www.thehistoricalarchive.com/images/products/509.jpg

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Part 13 of a weekly 20-part retrospective of World War II

Out now is our latest Bolt Action Imperial Japanese boxed set – the Special Naval Landing Force! View in Store Due to the deep distrust the Japanese Army and Navy had for each other, joint operations were all but out of the question and the Navy created the Special Naval Landing Forces as a result....

I normall don't do German armor. However, I wanted to build a Pzkw I ever since I saw this photograph. The photo is of what looks like a platoon element of Chinese PzKw Ia light tanks in Chinese service. They have been captured by Imperial Japanese Army troops outside Nanking in 1937. The caption on the photo reads (roughly): Japanese soldiers cheering while standing on Chinese Army Panzer Ia tanks on the Nanking front. This photo was taken by a cameraman of the Osaka Mainichi Newspaper. The photo was taken at Hsia-Kuan. The vehicles seem to have been abandoned by Chinese troops retreating from the Yangtze River since there does not appear to be any damage to them. This photo was taken December, 1937. One of the captured Chinese panzers was sent to Japan where it was handed over to the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Technology Division for evaluation. They were mostly interested in the engine and drive train and tested those pretty extensively. When when they were done with that they placed it on public display (didn't say where) for an unspecified period of time after which they handed the vehicle back over to the Army. Sadly, it doesn't say what the Army did with the vehicle. Eventually this will find it’s way into a diorama depicting the picture. This is the Dragon PzKw Ia Smart Kit. I built it stock box except for two stretched sprue flash hiders I added to the muzzles of the machine guns in the turret. I painted the vehicle with Tamiya acrylics and weathered with dark oil washes and ground pastels. I created the Chinese roundel on the computer and printed it on Testors decal paper. There was a lot of chatter on several discussion forums about how these vehicles were painted. One school of thought is that German tanks in the mid 1930’s were painted in a three color camo pattern so the tanks exported to the Chinese HAD to be painted the same way. I still maintain that this and several other photos of the captured Chinese tanks show NO camo pattern. Anyway, it’s fun to speculate.