On this day, August 6th, at this spot

[Barrykgerdes]

I would like to add something to my earlier post.

It is quite common and normal for the younger generation to have thoughts on what should have been done after the event but you must remember that during the war only sanitised versions of the good news were ever released to the public, disasters were quickly swept under the carpet.

As far as local war doings we were told very little about the bombing of Darwin and nothing about other air raids by Japanese bombers on other targets of northern and western Australia. Getting news from these places was not available because of restrictions in travel and to other communication media.

The only reasonably unsanitised news of the war was the submarine attack on Sydney harbour and that was because so many of us had first hand information from our own observations.

My friend Elva was the morning announcer on 2GF Grafton during the war years and as a reader of the news she had very strict guidelines as to what she could say. The punishment for disclosing "the truth" could be very severe.

Barry

[BPO]

Originally Posted by LewisM

I stood at the War Memorial in Honolulu and witnessed Japanese tourists taking photos of each other doing victory signs. I then witnessed the same behaviour at the Arizona Memorial.

Japanese people do indeed display what they think of as the peace sign in almost every picture. It definitely isn't a "V for Victory" pose.