My father was on Tinian along with Enola Gay and Bock's Car and always drove
Fords after the war. I took him for a roadster ride before he passed away
and he was very impressed. In fact, he said he was impressed with the
Japanese zero early on in the war. Not so impressed with the divine wind
however.
Steve Harvey
Milwaukee
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My dad spent 2-1/2 years or so in North Africa and Italy with the 1st
Armored Division (Old Ironsides), being shot at by the Wehrmacht and the
Luftwaffe, and when I was in high school (closer to the end of WWII than we
are now to the end of the Vietnam War...) he made me get rid of my "surfer's
cross" - a St Christopher medal set in a Maltese cross.
He mellowed, though - the last vehicle he bought before he died was a VW
Camper Van; and you could have knocked me over with a feather.
Hard to understand, maybe, for those of us who didn't live through it - but
having grown up with someone who did, I respect their feelings on the
matter.
Gary McCormick
San Jose, CA
--- On Tue, 2/3/09, E Scanlon <escanlon@wa-net.com> wrote:
From: E Scanlon <escanlon@wa-net.com>
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] Rising Sun opinions
To: "'Datsun Roadster List'" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 10:49 AM
While the design of the Rising Sun may appeal to some, it harbors some of
the
same sentiment as the Swastika to others. Heck, even the "Iron Cross"
or Maltese Cross wheels on the Z's in later years caused some to remove them
just because of the association with WWI Germany.
Apologies to anyone that may take offense to this, as that is not my intent.
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