Honolulu.............14AUG45

[K7SGJ]

A friend of mine, (yes, I do have a few friends) sent me this amazing clip. evidently, a woman found this among some things she just found that belonged to her father. Quite a find. I love stuff like this.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ85j6U2Fvs

[KK4AMI]

I like those old war time movies as well. All those military guys were so happy they were being discharged in Hawaii and got to buy cheap government subsidized homes along the beach, with VA loans. Guess they knew they would be making a killing on the baby boom generation when they sold them 40 years later at 100 x their purchase value. (kidding) Which one in that film was you? :lol:

[NQ6U]

I halfway hoped to see my father somewhere in that film. He was in Honolulu on VJ Day, making practice bombing runs in a TBM Avenger in preparation for the invasion of Japan.

http://forthokie.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/tbm-avenger.jpg

[K7SGJ]

I halfway hoped to see my father somewhere in that film. He was in Honolulu on VJ Day, making practice bombing runs in a TBM Avenger in preparation for the invasion of Japan.


http://forthokie.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/tbm-avenger.jpg


Nice plane. Too bad they didn't give him a P-51 that he could have brought home with him after the war. The military does pretty much let you keep the stuff you were issued. After all, you wouldn't want someone else's old wool socks, would you? Peeeeeee-ewe.

[PA5COR]

Nice movie, a moment in time that needs to be shown more...

[NA4BH]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK32JFg3uwc

[KK4AMI]

I halfway hoped to see my father somewhere in that film. He was in Honolulu on VJ Day, making practice bombing runs in a TBM Avenger in preparation for the invasion of Japan.

http://forthokie.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/tbm-avenger.jpg

Your Dad flew the same plane as President Bush? So where is your oil company, your Presidency, etc.

[N2NH]

Eight years to the day before I was born. The real date of V-J Day.

Amazing to see this in color. All I've ever seen from that time are black and white newsreels or Victory at Sea.

[PA5COR]

There is a rvival of WW2 documentary's on German tv now the last months and i have been watching a lot again...

[KG4CGC]

Cool video. Thanks for sharing.
I can only compare what I ''think'' would happen today if people celebrated a similar victory in such a manner. Ah, but today we don't have victories. Mission Accomplished?

[kb2vxa]

"Amazing to see this in color."
Not so much, many old B&W films were digitally cleaned up and colorized, now we're seeing WW1 in color on the History Channel. (?) FYI and perhaps amazement is color photography was done in the 19 teens, this is Vladimir Railroad Yard in Russia ca. 1910. Since color film wasn't invented yet the photographer exposed three emulsion glass plates through red, green and blue filters. When the negatives were developed the positives were set up with the proper red, green and blue light shining through it produced a color image you see here.

[NQ6U]

Not so much, many old B&W films were digitally cleaned up and colorized, now we're seeing WW1 in color on the History Channel.

That's a crock. The world was monochromatic until November 16, 1938—the date that LSD was first synthesized by Albert Hofmann at Sandoz labs. I offer up as proof the fact that less than two months later, The Wizard of Oz was released.

[kb2vxa]

LOL!

[W9JEF]

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.I was born in 1939 (the year Wizard of Oz was released--in color).

Earliest memories are of "The War"--Mom using sugar rationing coupons,

Dad hunched over the big Zenith table radio listening to good/bad news.

Aunt getting "V-mail" from husband in the Air Force.

Then on an August afternoon, factory whistles celebrating the end of WWII.

I was in Honolulu on July 4, 1959--their first Fourth of July as a state.

Every bar offered drinks on the house for all Sailors. :)

Don't remember much (besides throwing up

in the doorway of Dick Tyrell's Jewelry Store). :sick:

[kb2vxa]

I went looking for more information on Hawaii Admission Day and found a celebration few know about. Pi Day is observed on March 14 or 3/14 in the U.S. month/day date format, since 3, 1, and 4 are the three most significant digits of π in the decimal form. The town of Princeton, New Jersey, hosts numerous events in a combined celebration of Pi Day and Albert Einstein's birthday, which is also March 14. The day is often celebrated by eating pi pie. Hey, he's wearing my headphones!