Need a little help with this booklet I have found*now updated with scans post 44

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I was going through a photo album of my grandfathers time on kiska during the war at my parents place today and found a little booklet that fell out that was in Japanese. I was wondering if this was propaganda that our side dropped on them or if this was Japanese. It seems to be formatted in the traditional right to left Japanese reading style of the time so I have loases the scans the same way

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Very roughly..

Picture 6 says something about "Soldier's notes" in the big print, left side of the drawn in memo. The right side of the booklet on the edge reads something about "How to attack Nanjing."

This is all the kanji (Chinese in the japanese language) my wife can decipher at this point.
 
Chuck3436 said:
Very roughly..

Picture 6 says something about "Soldier's notes" in the big print, left side of the drawn in memo. The right side of the booklet on the edge reads something about "How to attack Nanjing."

This is all the kanji (Chinese in the japanese language) my wife can decipher at this point.
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Thanks for the bit of info, cgn is such a wealth of information. I'm getting it scanned and will update the first post with the better pictures.
 
My guess is that it's a Japanese WWII soldiers book. Probably taken off a dead Japanese soldier or one that may have surrendered.

These sort of publications were provided to troops of every military in WWII.

I'm sure someone can translate it to you, if you wish. I've had my Japanese history prof translate a few pieces of Japanese militaria for me in the past.

-Steve
 
Steve1987 said:
That's a possibility, or he traded for it at some point? Hard to know for sure.

A cool little item.

-Steve
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It was at Kiska, he had a few things that he found that seemed to go missing after he passed away. My grandfather was a pro hockey player before the war and broke his back after Canadians left Kiska while playing military hockey after so that was the end of the war for him. I found some great pictures of the Kiska landscape and of the landing pier the Canadians built there.

Even though my grandfather wasn't able to go back to the bruins after the war he always considered himself very lucky that he broke his back because shortly after all but 2 people in his unit were killed in an explosion during a training excercise.
 
The remains of the jap soldiers recovered after the war were delivered to the YASAKUNI SHRINE IN THOSE LITTLE WHITE BOXES.

I have NO BLOODY IDEA WHO printed that booklet and I really don't care!
 
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Jeebussss guys...did someone forget to inform me its "moontime" on CGN? For the record Biged seems to know a lot more about Japanese culture as he clearly lived there for a spell.

IMO; I don't care if they used those brainwashed ideological little buggers for howitzer wadding. Then their souls can occupy the temple or whatever;)

I'd still like to know the jist of the booklet though:)
 
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