Its June 10th 1945....

[ATR-42]

June 10th 1945, and they are still handing me out assignments?! uhhh the wars over boys, can we go home???

how come im still being sent out on missions??

renown 33000, i was all excited to send the boys home and start a new career but they sent me back out! :arrgh!:

[Max Peck]

Check your history book again, Japan didnt surrender until after the US dropped the atomic bombs in August 45.

[Laffertytig]

u obviously dont know your history. the WITP didnt end until august 45 when a certain A-Bomb was dropped on japan

[ATR-42]

LOL! nice work!! its a good thing i shoved off! :up:

[vindex]

We're fighting the British, right?

We'll get them back for burning down the Alamo!

[Grothesj2]

Those damn Germans bombed Pearl Harbor! Let's invade London to deafeat those Japanese!

[vindex]

Wait, I thought the Germans were our allies! Did their leader Stalin stab us in the back? Without them, how will we defeat Hitler's Mexican hordes?

Okay, you have to admit, you earned a little teasing.

[Chock]

In actual fact, many Allied servicemen weren't demobbed until well after VJ day, in many cases being kept in-theatre until 1946 (lots of them were complaining about it at the time), and strictly speaking, the Japanese war in Indochina ended up developing into the Vietnam war, via the French carrying things on there.

And as far as I'm aware, rationing in the UK continued well into the 1950s.

So you might be in for a record-breaking patrol! :D

[Kant Schwimm]

Yup the war went on for quite a while after VJday, thousands of little islands to clear up of jap troops who unfortunatley for them never knew the war ended, infact i'm sure I read a story of a jap soldier found guarding his island post many years after the war ended.

And their right, you do deserve the banter for not knowing when the war ended:oops: I think you should be demoted to bilge rat for that:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

[LZ_Baker]

Yup the war went on for quite a while after VJday, thousands of little islands to clear up of jap troops who unfortunatley for them never knew the war ended, infact i'm sure I read a story of a jap soldier found guarding his island post many years after the war ended.
Yea, there was two soldiers on some island in the Philipines who kept fighting until the 1970's (by that time, one had died). He saw US planes and choppers go over during Korea and Vietnam and though Japan was launching new offensives. They even had his family try and talk him out but he tought it was a trap and didn't surender. When he finally did, he ran off to Chille because hes wanted in the Philipines for killing over a dozen people over the years. And I think he was greated as a hero in Japan when he first came home../

[NefariousKoel]

That was Lt. Hiroo Onoda. He didn't surrender until 1974.

Here's the wiki rundown:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda

[Silence]

That was Lt. Hiroo Onoda. He didn't surrender until 1974.

Here's the wiki rundown:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda

Read the story about this poor lost soul, thanks for the link Koel. Poor guy wasted the best years of his life for a war that didn't exist. :nope: Reminds me that now matter how much I like Sub sims, war is hell. :yep:

[Morts]

That was Lt. Hiroo Onoda. He didn't surrender until 1974.

Here's the wiki rundown:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroo_Onoda

talking about being a fanatic there:o

[ATR-42]

oh for the love of pete you guys arent gonna let me :doh: live this down!!! :oops::know:

[Chock]

There was a report recently that two Japanese soldiers were still yet to come in from the hills of Mindanao in the Philipines:

Yoshio Yamakawa, aged 87, and Tsuzuki Nakauchi, aged 85.

Although I don't know if this ever proved to be a hoax or not (as had been suspected).

Apparently Japs doing this sort of thing was fairly common Hiroo Onada being the one most people have heard about. Bizarrely, his story was the theme of the concept rock album 'Nude' by the prog-rock band Camel.

More info on Jap WW2 holdout soldiers here if you are interested:

http://www.wanpela.com/holdouts/list.html

[AVGWarhawk]

@Chock,

That list is wild man! I did not know there were that many still holding out. :o Cool find for sure and interesting reading. I wonder what was going on in their heads when they were finally conviced it was over.