Veterans...Get the hell in here now!

. The Outdoorsman . said:
Always knew my Grandpa was a badass US Army WW2 Sergeant but only recently found out he was 41st Division. The Bloody Buchers, first to cross the Pacific to fight the Japanese. @BarnBuster maybe you could post a link, I cannot.
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Glad to. This is probably the best reference to the 41st in the Pacific. You may have to register and establish an account but it's free. BTW, the phrase "Bloody Butcher" was given to them by Tokyo Rose.

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The Jungleers: A History Of The 41st Infantry Division : McCartney, William F : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Contents DIVISION COMMANDER'S MESSAGE ix FOREWORD xi Chapter 1: WE BEGIN PREPARATION 1 Chapter 2: THE FALLEN COMMANDER 12 Chapter 3 : OVERSEAS TO...
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raratt said:
I need one of these in my garage to fire up and torment the neighborhood...

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I was in Seattle many years ago & in a strip mall saw a sign for an "Offshore Powerboat Museum". I dropped a donation in a box & wandered around all kinds of vintage piston powered super boats. One on a trailer had the signature up-swept J pipes of a Rolls Royce V-12 & the dude asked if I wanted to hear it. Hell Yeah! so he started it up on the priming pump & it promptly blew the ball cap off my head & my ears were ringing with that beautiful music. I still remember it like it was yesterday!

 
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I was in Seattle many years ago & in a strip mall saw a sign for an "Offshore Powerboat Museum". I dropped a donation in a box & wandered around all kinds of vintage piston powered super boats. One on a trailer had the signature up-swept J pipes of a Rolls Royce V-12 & the dude asked if I wanted to hear it. Hell Yeah! so he started it up on the priming pump & it promptly blew the ball cap off my head & my ears were ringing with that beautiful music. I still remember it like it was yesterday!

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They have the unlimited hydro races every August on Lake Washington. They have all gone to turbine engines however, the old V 12's are in short supply from years of blowing them up racing.
 
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9/2/1945 aboard "Mighty Mo" USS Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay, Japanese delegates sign the formal instrument of surrender.​

"The Formal Japanese Surrender took place onboard, which was chosen for being named for the President's home state and utilized as Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey's flagship for the last weeks of the war. The battleship flew the American flag that had been flown over the Nation's Capitol on December 7, 1941. On a bulkhead near the ceremony, Commodore Matthew Perry's 1853 flag was displayed from the Treaty of Japan. Japanese delegates signed the Instrument of Surrender first, then the General Douglas A. MacArthur, USA, signed as Supreme Commander, followed by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN, for the United States, and eight other officers representing the Allied Powers."

"Conspicuously absent from the gathering was the quiet, taciturn Admiral Raymond A. Spruance, victor of the Battle of Midway and commander of the U.S. Fifth Fleet. He was stationed off Okinawa aboard his flagship, the battleship USS New Jersey, because Nimitz had wanted someone to take command in the Pacific in case Japanese fanatics attacked the Missouri. Fears had been expressed that kamikaze suicide planes might be launched against the Mighty Mo when she entered Tokyo Bay." (Mo's 16" gun batteries were manned and ready for any potential sabotage)

Ever the consummate showman, Gen MacArthur (well, his staff behind his horsepower) * carefully orchestrated all aspects of the ceremony finalizing in a massive thunderous show of Allied airpower flyover with over 1000 American carrier based aircraft and B-29's flying over Missouri just at the end of the signing. ( Minutes before the lead elements roared into view, MacArthur had turned to Adm (William) Halsey and said "Bill, where the hell are the planes?". Coincidentally at the same time the perpetual cloudy skies broke and the bright sun showed thru. Proponents of MacArthur said he even arranged that with the Man Upstairs. (bb)

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* The September 2, 1945, ceremony aboard the 45,000-ton battleship USS Missouri was a logistical nightmare for MacArthur’s staff and the ship’s crew. Men scrubbed the warship white-glove spotless. Hard-boiled combat leaders played the role of exasperated headmasters, fretting over the appearance, placement, and proper behavior of thousands of marines and sailors scheduled to be in attendance. The operation involved hundreds of documents, dignitaries, and delegates, not to mention the precise coordination of four U.S. destroyers deployed as water taxis for shuttling VIPs to the Missouri. On top of that, America’s fighting forces had to attend to the needs of 225 news correspondents and 75 photographers.


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The Japanese Surrender at Tokyo Bay

Surrender ceremonies aboard the battleship USS Missouri ended a long campaign of death and destruction and brought World War II to a close.
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"He entered the ranks of the 4th Marine Raiders and later the 21st Marines, 3rd Marine Division, and went on to fight in Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Guam and Iwo Jima. He was bayoneted in the stomach while liberating Guam and shot in the chest and arm by enemy machine-gun fire during the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Days ago, in a ceremony in Stockton, California, the now 100-year-old was promoted from corporal to honorary sergeant by the 39th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Eric M. Smith — 79 years after his initial discharge."
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He was bayoneted in Guam. Shot on Iwo. Now, at 100, he is a sergeant.

At just 16, Frank S. Wright lied about his age to join the Marine Corps and went on to see combat on Guadalcanal, New Georgia, Guam and Iwo Jima.
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