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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVintage Dec 7th 1941 Pearl Harbor Toons
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The 442nd Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment of the United States Army. The regiment is best known as the most decorated in U.S. military history and as a fighting unit composed almost entirely of second-generation American soldiers of Japanese ancestry who fought in World War II.
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)barbtries
(28,877 posts)on the USS California. Later he was on the Lexington when it was sunk. the second image I just found recently in the cedar chest, it's certification of his membership in the august body "Shipwrecked Sailors of the South Seas."
was looking for a place to share these today. thanks for the toons
KS Toronado
(17,892 posts)Like Veteran's Day, Dec 7th is a day to remember those who served.
barbtries
(28,877 posts)and to my chagrin, if it wasn't for DU i would have blanked on it this year. Always think about my dad on these days.
roscoeroscoe
(1,401 posts)They sure made some nice certificates back in the day. My dad has one from when he served in Antarctica, just as pretty.
CatWoman
(79,311 posts)ThoughtCriminal
(14,131 posts)of the GOP's pro-Russian brigade.
KS Toronado
(17,892 posts)keithbvadu2
(37,596 posts)2naSalit
(87,881 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(22,740 posts)KS Toronado
(17,892 posts)Why I added the info on the 442nd INFANTRY, least we forget.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,740 posts)Gruenemann
(995 posts)...was created by Dr. Seuss.
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,740 posts)KS Toronado
(17,892 posts)I had no idea he was like that until I started searching for 1941 Pearl Harbor Editorial Cartoons today,
but then this Country was mad at Japan at the time. Dr Seuss started doing this after Dec 7th.
sarisataka
(19,500 posts)Of cartoons from the 30s and 40s, unedited. Now that my children are in their teens, I show them the unspoken parts of history and what was common at that time.
They have been shocked by how casually stereotypes and racist references were used.
Nictuku
(3,665 posts)I grew up in Hawaii (in the 80s) and calling some one from Japan a 'Jap' was considered derogatory. Times have changed, of which I'm glad.
I think most countries at war with another country allow or even encourage making the enemy 'less than human', i.e. today's world, the Russians are referred to as Orcs by the Ukrainians.
After reading about the horrors and seeing all the destruction done by the Russians, I can hardly blame them.
But that seems to be what was going on in those old cartoons.
What a Piece of Work is Man.
TheBlackAdder
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Japan issued a declaration of war on 8 February 1904.[50] However, three hours before Japan's declaration of war was received by the Russian government, and without warning, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the Russian Far East Fleet at Port Arthur.[51]
Tsar Nicholas II was stunned by news of the attack. He could not believe that Japan would commit an act of war without a formal declaration, and had been assured by his ministers that the Japanese would not fight. When the attack came, according to Cecil Spring Rice, first secretary at the British Embassy, it left the Tsar "almost incredulous".[52]
Russia declared war on Japan eight days later.[53] Japan, in response, made reference to the Russian attack on Sweden in 1808 without declaration of war, although the requirement to mediate disputes between states before commencing hostilities was made international law in 1899, and again in 1907, with the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907.[54][55][56]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War#Declaration_of_war
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