Taken in Utsunomiya on Showa 19, March 22 (March 22, 1944). 65 years ago.
This is a Monochrome Monday entry.
Monday, November 16, 2009
Grandpa goes to war
From the family album:
Taken in Utsunomiya on Showa 19, March 22 (March 22, 1944). 65 years ago.
This is a Monochrome Monday entry.
Taken in Utsunomiya on Showa 19, March 22 (March 22, 1944). 65 years ago.
This is a Monochrome Monday entry.
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13 comments:
That is definitely a moving image.
So young. I'm assuming that that is his mother. Very evocative image from a long ago time of turmoil.
Michael, no that's actually his wife, pregnant at the time with their first child. ;)
Hi Carolyn, yes it is, isn't it?
Grandma is very attached to her war album and it took us a lot of convincing that we should scan the whole thing for posterity.
I'm thinking to post other photos from her collection from time to time.
Did he survive?
Worth scanning, it's social history
Aileni, he survived. After the war he went on to become the station master of the Nikko JR station (yes, the same Nikko of the UNESCO World Heritage and the historic JR line) :)
John, I agree, and there is still so much left to scan at her house.
He looks far too young for this.
I love to see history in pictures.
They are beautiful. Laura
This is a wonderful tribute.
Glad I came back to see your replies. Learned much about the Japanese people and the war effort of that time when I read Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore F. Cook's Japan at War: An Oral History, within the past twelve months.
What a moving picture ...
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