Trip to Guadalcanal

[Mark VII]

somewhat caved in foxhole

[Mark VII]

Probably should of showed this pic at beginning. After heading back to village, turned around to get shot looking up Hill 27. The Japanese stone stands as a silent sentinel for those you fought and died here.

[Mark VII]

House on edge of the hill looking southerly.

[ilovestrategy]

Awesome pics, my hat is off to ya!

[Iridium]

Good stuff, Mark VII. I just wish that whoever made that Oka Force memorial had been better in their English. I'm assuming that it was made by Japan after the war. Jeez, you'd think they could finally get someone who knew how to translate Japanese into English well.[:D]

[Brady]

Any unexploded ordance or mines being found still? I know they are not uncommon in other areas, but with all the heavy fighting in such a small place I would expect them to still turn up from time time, and with all the gathering of war debrie going on I bet some have been seriously hurt if not killed by such things.

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: Iridium

Jeez, you'd think they could finally get someone who knew how to translate Japanese into English well.[:D]

Then what would the blind, non-Japanese or English speaking, North Korean rice farmer, they've got doing it now do with his life?[:D]

[wild_Willie2]

Then what would the blind, non-Japanese or English speaking, North Korean rice farmer, they've got doing it now do with his life?

He could finally start growing some RICE so he and his country would't starve to death every 6 months [8|][8|]

[Raverdave]

Yes the Japanese are putting a lot of money into the Solomons, mainly to buy fishing rights for tuna and to "buy" the Solomons vote in the International Whaling Commission. Not a good state of affairs.

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: Mark VII

We are now heading to the top of Hill 27, which I believe is in the middle of the Gifu. Looking right after exiting the village. Guess what we can see out in the water?

Tulagi?

[Speedysteve]

Cool pics.

Sheesh with all those foxholes around you gotta watch your step [X(]

Would be cool to do more battlefield tours. Only one i've done to a minor extent was the Normandy beaches. Some of the Pacific isalnds would be cool since they are so remote I bet some cool stuff still survives.

Steven

[DuckofTindalos]

Well, you win that bet, Speedy. Especially on Truk/Chuuk. Check out this picture I just Googled my way to (and sorry Mark VII, this isn't meant to highjack your thread).

[Speedysteve]

Cool Terminus. Chuuk away! [:D]

I wonder if any crazy Japanese soldier who is at least 100 years old is still hiding in some random jungle? [:'(]

[DuckofTindalos]

Well, the last pair turned out to be fakes... BTW, that was a TANK standing on the bottom of Chuuk lagoon![X(]

[Speedysteve]

Terminus. Even I know that was a tank. I think even a blind man could tell that [:D]

You're right tho. How on earth did a tank get to be at the bottom of Chuuk? [X(]

Japanese experiment into DD tank? [;)]

[timtom]

Here's a link to to a fella who combed over the same area about a decade ago. Leaves the impression there was a good amount of stuff lying about then...

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/people/vis ... usten.html

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: Speedy

Terminus. Even I know that was a tank. I think even a blind man could tell that [:D]

You're right tho. How on earth did a tank get to be at the bottom of Chuuk? [X(]

Japanese experiment into DD tank? [;)]

Actually, according to the site I stole that picture from, it was deck cargo on a Japanese cargo ship that was sunk during Operation Hailstone.

[Speedysteve]

Aaaw DD tank experiment sounds better [8D]

[WhoCares]

ORIGINAL: timtom

Here's a link to to a fella who combed over the same area about a decade ago. Leaves the impression there was a good amount of stuff lying about then...

http://www.pacificwrecks.com/people/vis ... usten.html

I think I have seen that page before and what I considered funny is the fact that he disses 'The Thin Red Line' because they made it on New Zealand and not on Guadalcanal. And that despite the fact that he mentioned quite some life ammunition and mines still spread all around the place [8|]

[DuckofTindalos]

ORIGINAL: WhoCares
I think I have seen that page before and what I considered funny is the fact that he disses 'The Thin Red Line' because they made it on New Zealand and not on Guadalcanal.

"The Thin Red Line" shouldn't be dissed for being made in New Zealand, but because it was SUCH A BAD MOVIE!