Japanese surrender signing
I was watching some WWII documentary on the Japanese surrender signing, on the battleship Missouri. I've seen bits and pieces of this footage multiple times over the years. BUT for some reason I was watch a bit of the film where the Japanese delegation first crawled up the ladder to the main desk. They had a number of uniformed sailors and soldiers lined up on the main deck in formation. I was curious to see as the Japanese delegation initially stepped on the main deck NO ONE saluted except for one Navy officer in the second row! He appeared to be an older type, being in the second row he would notice that no one else was saluting, and been in the second row he would not be in charge of the formation. I was just wondering what the story is behind this event. AND YES I watch too much TV!! *G*
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I think that officer was Jimmy Carter! 0 -
By the end of the war, we HATED the "dirty Japs" or "Nips" very, very
much - especially the Navy folk - my uncle was one of them who
survived a numberf of Kamakazi attacks after the Battle of Okinawa.
It was an 'unconditional surrender' and none/few of us saluted them.
The same thing also happened in Europe, often.
When you see General Friedrich Paulus signing the surrender at Stalingrad,
some of the Germans saluted ... the Russians did not.
Same with the final Nazi surrender - Patton never saluted a nazi, either.
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Nah, it was John Kerry, he got a Purple Heart for his injured feelings.[:(!] 
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