sakai trained kamikaze’s…fuck him.

Onishi was the founder of the Special Attack Force though. He killed himself the day the surrender was announced. As did several other Japanese politicians and officers.

Yep, that was Edward VIII. He abdicated in 1936 because he wanted to marry a divorced American named Wallis Simpson. The royal family is still pretty conservative about who its members marry, so you can imagine they were not too thrilled with a divorced American heiress becoming queen.

Edward VIII, after he abdicated he became Duke of Windsor, was a pretty hardcore believer in fascism. But that was actually quite common among some intellectual and social groups in Britain in the 1920s and 30s.

I’d throw Tora Tora Tora into the great movie realm.

My memory of Tora Tora Tora was that it bored me to piss, but it’s been a few years.

Repo Man, on the other hand: greatest movie of all time.

on a semi-related note…i think it’s crazy that the most accomplished japanese fighter pilot of all time, hiromichi sinohara, was killed two years before pearl harbor.

US waited too long to get involved…macarthur and patton could’ve killed five times as many fuckers.

Saburo Sakai shat on his grave. Until he was shot down and killed in 1945.

I’m not much of a history buff, but I watched something about King Edward (I think) and how he was a Nazi supporter. That dude was fucking nuts.

US waited too long to get involved…macarthur and patton could’ve killed five times as many fuckers.

Saburo Sakai shat on his grave. Until he was shot down and killed in 1945.

I don’t know which one that would be… the Aikman post?

The ESPN in fort worth post

here’s a corgi in a mailbox as an apology.

AHHHH! I just had a cuteness heart attack!

It’s in the personals ad that TBL disguised as a post

I don’t know which one that would be… the Aikman post?

here’s a corgi in a mailbox as an apology.

i finished lone survivor.

holy. shit.

seriously.

now read rogue warrior by richard marcinko. SEAL in vietnam, was the man responsible for creating the counterterrorist SEAL team as well as red cell, which was a team designed to exploit the US govt’s weaknesses in order to protect against future attacks. he was such a badass with red cell, and embarassed so many military officials, they trumped up charges to have him arrested.

fucking AWESOME book.

I am amazed that /jmorris’d was not applid to the comment Dirt (!!!) just left about polar bears

Link?

US waited too long to get involved…macarthur and patton could’ve killed five times as many fuckers.

holy. shit.

Exactly.