Honorably Discharged personnel of all four military service branches ( and Coast Guard personnel during wartime assignment to the War Department, Navy Department or Department of Defense ) are eligible. The Pin may be worn on civilian clothing. The Pin should be displayed among military medals in shadow boxes.

So the military had to come up with a distinguishing device for discharged veterans. The “duck” was actually an eagle, but military members thought it looked like a duck, so they started calling it a “ruptured duck,” since it also represented a servicemember’s exodus from the military, or a rupture.

It stands for Articles of War (the forerunner of today’s Uniform Code of Military Justice). Article 107 refers to docking the soldier credit for days of active duty that they didn’t earn. Typical examples would be for periods of AWOL and/or periods spent incarcerated for an offense.

Crew of 7th Aircraft – Plane # 40-2261 – “The Ruptured Duck” – Crew from 95th Squadron, 17th Group – (Crash landing – China coast) Ted Lawson and his crew successfully dropped their bombs on industrial factories in downtown Tokyo before withdrawing to fly on to China.

Cole was the last surviving participant in the Doolittle Raid. Staff Sergeant David J. Thatcher, gunner of aircraft No. 7, died on June 23, 2016, at the age of 94.

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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo is a 1944 American war film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The screenplay by Dalton Trumbo is based on the 1943 book of the same name by Captain Ted W. Lawson. The film depicted the raid accurately and used actual wartime footage of the bombers.

The Japanese killed an estimated 10,000 Chinese civilians during their search for Doolittle’s men. People who aided the airmen were tortured before they were killed.

The sole dissenter was Representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana, a devout pacifist who had also cast a dissenting vote against the U.S. entrance into World War I. Three days later, Germany and Italy declared war against the United States, and the U.S. government responded in kind.

The Japanese intended the attack as a preventive action to keep the United States Pacific Fleet from interfering with its planned military actions in Southeast Asia against overseas territories of the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and the United States.

The rest went down over China or along its coast. In all, Chinese soldiers, guerrillas and civilians saved more than 60 of the 80 Raiders. The Doolittle Raid was a smashing success — for U.S. self-esteem. The Japanese ended up killing 30,000 Chinese troops and an estimated 250,000 civilians.

Japan hoped to defeat the US Pacific Fleet and use Midway as a base to attack Pearl Harbor, securing dominance in the region and then forcing a negotiated peace.

All 80 raiders received the Distinguished Flying Cross for the Doolittle Raid. The raid had an impact far greater than its small size might indicate. It had so incensed the Japanese military that Japan diverted resources to China to seek out the surviving raiders, and killed some 250,000 Chinese people in retaliation.

Greater Tokyo Area

Bombing of Tokyo, (March 9–10, 1945), firebombing raid (codenamed “Operation Meetinghouse”) by the United States on the capital of Japan during the final stages of World War II, often cited as one of the most destructive acts of war in history, more destructive than the bombing of Dresden, Hiroshima, or Nagasaki.

The 4 heavy aircraft carriers Akagi, Hiryu, Kaga, and Soryu were supplemented by 2 light aircraft carriers, 2 seaplane carriers, 7 battleships, 15 cruisers, 42 destroyers, 10 submarines, and various support and escort vessels.

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Human Casualties included approximately 3,000 sailors and airmen killed. A total of 317 United States sailors, airmen, and marines killed.

The Battle of Midway

Hakkō ichiu (八紘一宇, “eight crown cords, one roof” i.e. “all the world under one roof”) or Hakkō iu (八紘爲宇, Shinjitai: 八紘為宇) was a Japanese political slogan meaning the divine right of the Empire of Japan to “unify the eight corners of the world”. This slogan formed the basis of the Japanese Empire’s ideology.

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The demands called for confirmation of Japan’s railway and mining claims in Shandong province; granting of special concessions in Manchuria; Sino-Japanese control of the Han-Ye-Ping mining base in central China; access to harbours, bays, and islands along China’s coast; and Japanese control, through advisers, of …

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Today’s Japanese Mimetic Word is だんだん (dandan) which means “little by little” or “gradually.” Read more and learn the different ways to use だんだん (dandan).

Related Kanji 方 direction, person, alternative.

In Japanese, SHADOW is called KAGE, and described with two characters 陰and 影 As in English, KAGE is the shadow that is created by the light. KAGE is also something invisible.

Actually, there are many Japanese names could mean fire. Kanji Fire’s pronunciation is hi, ka or ho, Japanese name which contains hirakana hi, ka or ho technically could be rewritten in Kanji which means fire.

Definition: 意味 Learn Japanese vocabulary: こちら (kochira). Meaning: this way (direction close to the speaker or towards the speaker); this direction​​.

“Onegaishimasu” is the correct polite Japanese phrase to say to one’s opponent before starting to play: o negai shimasu. “Please do your best”, “Please have a good game”, “if you please”, or “I pray you…” Literally: “do me this favor”