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This Film Is Nonclassified

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From a WWII US Navy training film strip.

I'm reading up on the situation in Okinawa. If you haven't been following it, the Japanese island is in an uproar following the alleged rape of a 14-year-old girl by a U.S. Marine stationed there. In the course of my research, I came upon these stills from a World War II film strip, designed to train Navy pilots in the event they were shot down in the Pacific theatre. The still above, meant to teach soldiers to distinguish their Japanese enemy from their Filipino friend, is one of many at which I'm shaking my head.

Ian Chillag

2:59 PM ET | 02-27-2008 | permalink

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Are you shaking your head side-to-side, or up and down? This whole situation causes a bobble-head motion for me.

It seems the Okinawans aren't sufficiently grateful for our 50,000 troops protecting them from al Qaida, or is it from the Imperial Japanese Menace?

Those slides are something else. I found the 2 illustrating how to tell the difference between pagans and Christians particularly useful. As well as the series where the G.I. befriends what appears to be an Asian forest spirit.

Sent by matty | 4:40 PM ET | 02-27-2008

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