DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)
90 years ago, on this Day... the Firebombing of Tokyo
279 Boeing B-29 Superfortress bombers attacked Tokyo in a raid on the night of March 9–10, 1945.
This raid was the most destructive single air attack in history. Designated Operation Meetinghouse, 329 bombers particpated in the coordinated attack with 279 reaching Tokyo. The attack lasting over 2 hours dropped over 1,500 tons of incindiary (napalm) bombs. This was a culmination of bombing raids on Tokyo which had started in June 1944. Prior to this, high altitude daytime raids attempted to be precision attacks targeting strategic and industrial facilities had proven less than successful. This raid was a significant moral shift for America, being the first time civilians were deliberately targeted and wasn't without some misgivings. The goal was to destroy an area of high density light industry and the associated workers living around them. The attack destroyed 16 sq miles (25%) of the city, over 250,000 buildings, and killed over 100,000. A million people were left homeless. American losses were 14 aircraft and 96 aircrew. Interestingly, no loss was due to enemy fighters. This raid set the stage for the Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 9) bombings to follow.
‘We Hated What We Were Doing’: Veterans Recall Firebombing Japan
American airmen who took part in the 1945 firebombing missions grapple with the particular horror they witnessed being inflicted on those below. Just past midnight, hundreds of B-29 Superfortress bombers arrived over Tokyo, having launched from the Mariana Islands, which the United States had recently captured from the Imperial Japanese Army at great human cost. The aircraft had largely been stripped of their armaments so that they could carry even more clusters of small incendiary munitions. Young American officers in the sky dropped hundreds of thousands of bomblets on the working-class section of the city, with its densely packed wooden dwellings mainly inhabited at the time by women, children and men too old to fight. (New York Times Magazine)
Pathfinder Fire Storm: the B-29s Over Tokyo That Helped End the War
The Great B-29 Tokyo pathfinder fire storm mission of March 1945 killed more than 100,000 Japanese but may have won the war in the Pacific.
warfarehistorynetwork.com
Bombing of Tokyo - Wikipedia
In keeping with a Japnese linked theme. Buck 110 with Mt Fuji gold etch. c. 1988. Beautiful stag handles. I've shown this one several times in the past. Mt Fuji is the highest peak in Japan at 12,388'. It is located 60 miles SW of Tokyo and last erupted in 1707. My feeling is that the etch is by Taylor and the serial number location is typical as I have seen some Taylor etches serial numbered on the bolster. I can find no special projects listing for this knife but interestingly there are 3 other Taylor etched stag 110's on the 1989 Special Projects list, Emperor Hirohito, Elvis Presley, and one listed as "Hunter, Stag". I am thinking the Mt Fuji and Emperor Hirohito knives were for export and rare in the USA. The Elvis knife does pop up occasionally and I have seen the Hirohito knife but not at a hobbiest price. (there are several on the bay right now for $900+ listed from Japan)
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