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VJ 80 Day today

Posted by Est-1878 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Est-1878' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2025, 8:40 am

The oldest veteran attending The National Arboretum today is 104.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NoOi0aSFc4&list=RD7NoOi0aSFc4&start_radio=1

Re: VJ 80 Day today

Posted by Brenno <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Brenno' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2025, 7:08 pm, in reply to "VJ 80 Day today "

I hate the Japs for what they done in that war. Savage bastards
How they treated the brits and Chinese unforgivable.

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Posted by Tom Joad <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Tom+Joad' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2025, 6:53 pm, in reply to "VJ 80 Day today "

My mums youngest brother served in Burma, the 14th army, or the forgotten army as it was called

He lived less than half a mile from our house and I'd see him some mornings on my way to school sat on a wall, totally breathless trying to breathe, he died a couple of years later only 25 years after the end of the war, he was a lovely man and my mum's favourite brother my favourite uncle as well. The Burma campaign did for him my mum would say.

RIP Jimmy Murphy you were a wonderful man.

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Posted by Wooly <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Wooly' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2025, 6:47 pm, in reply to "VJ 80 Day today "

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Posted by Sherpa <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Sherpa' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2025, 6:43 pm, in reply to "VJ 80 Day today "

The Japanese were barbaric, inhumane, sadistic monsters.

That should never be forgotten.

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Posted by G92 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=G92' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2025, 9:19 am, in reply to "VJ 80 Day today "

My Grandad was based in what is now Bangladesh and was involved in logistics for Slim's army which was a zillion times a better bet than actually fighting the Japanese in the Burmese jungles, although not without its risks. That said the daft get came a nats cock width away from death by on a day off taking a jeep and heading to a beach where he sunbathed all day in 104 degree heat. They found him with a similar body temperature covered in blisters virtually shivering to death. Now that really would have been one stupid way to die as part of the Commonwealth army fighting the Japanese.

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Posted by Essex Bee3 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Essex+Bee3' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2025, 10:37 am, in reply to "Re: VJ 80 Day today "

Some good tv on the subject by the looks mate

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Posted by G92 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=G92' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2025, 11:00 am, in reply to "Re: VJ 80 Day today "

Yeah mate.
Always called the "forgotten army".
Was as bad as the Eastern Front in winter fighting the Japanese in the jungles. Don't understand how any of them kept going/got any sleep with all those creepy crawlies and the unbearable heat, nevermind fighting the Japanese.

Re: VJ 80 Day today

Any recommended reading ?

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Although only focusing on 1944 and 1945, Max Hastings Nemesis: The Battle for Japan 1944-45 is tremendous, lid.

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Posted by beerwulf2 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=beerwulf2' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2025, 7:00 pm, in reply to "Re: VJ 80 Day today "

Moncurred. I've been going through the Max Hastings books lately, he really is a good writer. Operation Pedestal is excellent.

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Posted by Thingwall <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Thingwall' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2025, 11:29 am, in reply to "Re: VJ 80 Day today "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartered_Safe_Out_Here

It's a great memoir as long as you ignore the Gammon views he can't resist chucking in about the 1990s. Great novelist - terrible politically.

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Posted by homer_j_fong <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=homer_j_fong' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2025, 10:05 am, in reply to "Re: VJ 80 Day today "

Sounds like he needed to be a bit more Slim shady.

Cos you can’t get Teenage Eskimo in Wantage…

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Posted by Platinii <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Platinii' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2025, 7:00 pm, in reply to "Re: VJ 80 Day today "

Luckily he didn't dido

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hahahahaha

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Posted by Est-1878 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Est-1878' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2025, 9:41 am, in reply to "Re: VJ 80 Day today "

Someone on my case load years ago had been imprisoned by the Japanese in Burma I think
The stories of what they did to POWs was off the scale horrific
They were savage bàstards

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NoOi0aSFc4&list=RD7NoOi0aSFc4&start_radio=1

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Posted by ESCLIP <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=ESCLIP' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2025, 10:09 am, in reply to "Re: VJ 80 Day today "

There is a two- or three-part series, The Pacific War, or something along those lines in which an old Scotsman who served with the Argylle and Sutherland Highlanders, the last unit to cross the bridge to Singapore, was interviewed

That is how he described the Japanese

His name was Duncan Ferguson

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Posted by ThommosSocks <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=ThommosSocks' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2025, 9:56 am, in reply to "Re: VJ 80 Day today "

We've been watching the Narrow Road to the Deep North and it's a really hard watch.
I was listening to a podcast review and someone wrote in and said their grandfather wasa POW working in the Burma railway and from the little he told him it was far worse than what the show depicts. The grandad ended up a butler for Lord Sefton

Thommossocks is innocent

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Posted by Grazy1 <iframe src='https://members.boardhost.com/everton-forum/info/user=Grazy1' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on August 15, 2025, 10:06 am, in reply to "Re: VJ 80 Day today "

Yeah I watched that last weekend a tough watch it was

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I believe so - proper Stalin, Hitler and Mao levels of cruelness.

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