Radio used by Japanese to send final Iwo Jima transmission found

National Aug. 21, 2012 - 06:49AM JST ( 15 )

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GG2141Aug. 21, 2012 - 07:54AM JST

come in Tokyo, come in Tokyo.
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JeffLeeAug. 21, 2012 - 09:20AM JST

Amazing that they're still finding WW2 stuff on the island, especially ones that are as big as "2 meters wide."
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WakarimasenAug. 21, 2012 - 09:42AM JST

Does the transmitter still work?
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paulinusaAug. 21, 2012 - 09:48AM JST

"Likely","probably" and "highly likely" still equals maybe.Then again, that's the case with most of history.
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Harry_GattoAug. 21, 2012 - 09:54AM JST

Does the transmitter still work?

Having seen a photo of it, not a chance but it may be restorable. However, being probably historically significant I imagine it will be kept in its current condition.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_LandAug. 21, 2012 - 09:58AM JST

“arrows and bullets are exhausted” and “sorrow comes as I fall.”

Anybody know the original Japanese version in it's entirety?
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edbardoeAug. 21, 2012 - 09:59AM JST

Actually the B-29's flew in to attack from the Marianas, Iwo was a emercency landing field for those damaged and with engine problems. Likely had fighters based there to protect the B-29's but the defending fighters of Japan were mostly gone by then.
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hoserfellaAug. 21, 2012 - 10:04AM JST

"Likely","probably" and "highly likely" still equals maybe.Then again, that's the case with most of history

especially Japanese history. Japanese archaeologists tend to announce findings without and scrutiny or peer review. In some cases they have fabricated findings altogether.
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VirtuosoAug. 21, 2012 - 11:54AM JST

Anybody know the original Japanese version in its entirety?

「矢弾尽き果て散るぞ悲しき」Yatama tsukihate chiruzo kanashiki
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Tiger_In_The_HermitageAug. 21, 2012 - 01:12PM JST

Great, let is be a lesson for all of us 29,000 people died due to irrational and hot headedness of a group of old men.
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timtakAug. 21, 2012 - 02:14PM JST

Thanks Virtuoso. He went on to say 仇討たで野辺には朽ちじ吾は又七度生れて矛を執らむぞ Which means something like "Though I fall in the field attempting revenge on my enemies, I'll be reborn seven times more to take up my spear again." About six months later GI's were giving out chocolates in Yokohama, and 67 years later they are still here. Was the General not reborn at all? He also said (according to his English wikipedia article) "If our children can live safely for one more day, it would be worth the one more day that we defend this island!" Or did he decide that he had been misguided, in TITH's words "a hot headed old man?"
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Tom WebbAug. 21, 2012 - 08:31PM JST

I am surprised that the bunker was even found. During my several transit stops in the early '60s and '70s', the US Air Force personnel told us not to venture off the roads/trails as unexploded bombs were present and hidden by the bushes nor enter any caves. I saw cave entrances that was concreted over and was hard to notice bunkers going up Mount Suribachi. I saw volcanic gases coming out of fissues and I bet that surphur gas was hell on equipments.
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Tom WebbAug. 21, 2012 - 08:32PM JST

My mistake on transit stops it was in early '60s and not '70s.
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the-grouchAug. 21, 2012 - 10:49PM JST

Iwo Jima.... of all times people had travelled there, made movies there and even had some caves searched for remains, they just found this contraption? It not like it's a set keys or an iPod. It's freakin' two meters wide x a meter and half in height and heavy (try almost a ton). I doubt it was just found. Who found it? Why were they there? This article doesn't really say much.