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Title: Pictures of fighting in Shanghai 1937
Post by: GrumpyOldMan on 29 August 2013, 02:33:24 AM
Hello all

Some pictures of the fighting in Shanghai 1937:-

http://www.japan-guide.com/a/shanghai/image.html?1 (http://www.japan-guide.com/a/shanghai/image.html?1)

Cheers

GrumpyOldMan
Title: Re: Pictures of fighting in Shanghai 1937
Post by: Steve J on 29 August 2013, 06:32:20 AM
Thanks for this link Grumpy. Some very informative pics there of a conflict a know very little about.
Title: Re: Pictures of fighting in Shanghai 1937
Post by: Hertsblue on 29 August 2013, 07:57:05 AM
Extremely interesting, Grumps. I don't suppose many of us would have any idea of what Shanghai looked like between the wars.
Title: Re: Pictures of fighting in Shanghai 1937
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 29 August 2013, 07:58:41 AM
The lady of dear couple who used to be my neighbours before they passed on was born in Shanghai and was evacuated in 37, Said she would never go back! It was only later, after she suffered massively from Alzheimer's,  her husband told me she was evacuated to Singapore, before being relocated to... Dunstable!
Title: Re: Pictures of fighting in Shanghai 1937
Post by: Orcs on 29 August 2013, 10:59:21 PM
Quote from: mad lemmey on 29 August 2013, 07:58:41 AM
The lady of dear couple who used to be my neighbours before they passed on was born in Shanghai and was evacuated in 37, Said she would never go back! It was only later, after she suffered massively from Alzheimer's,  her husband told me she was evacuated to Singapore, before being relocated to... Dunstable!

Poor woman - to go through all that and end up in "Dunstable" :d

Title: Re: Pictures of fighting in Shanghai 1937
Post by: Hertsblue on 30 August 2013, 08:33:51 AM
Isn't Dunstable a sprawling metropolis bustling with life, just like Shanghai? Damn, I've dropped my white cane again....   ;)
Title: Re: Pictures of fighting in Shanghai 1937
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 30 August 2013, 08:42:58 AM
No, it's one letter off unstable!
Title: Re: Pictures of fighting in Shanghai 1937
Post by: Hertsblue on 30 August 2013, 08:48:23 AM
Wargaming in the old "beehive" hall there was a little like playing by moonlight. It's a supermarket now - sic gloria transit mundi!