Sixty-five years ago, Japan surrendered ending World War II. My father was stationed on Okinawa with the Army engineers and the end of hostilities kept him from building airfields during Operation Downfall, the planned invasion of Japan. Allied casualties were projected to be heavy, thus my future writing career was saved by good fortune and the atomic bomb.
Here's remarkable color footage from 1945 Honolulu.
via Ace of Spades
2 comments:
that is some beautiful color footage! Never seen it before!
I don't know whether they cleaned it up digitally, but its fantastic.
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