>I think you're misusing the word "context". You're alive and talking in the present, about a movie which was released in the last few days.If this were actually 1941, maybe you could get away with using the word "Nips", but it's not. When was the last time you heard a historian use the word "Nigger"? Never, because they know that they're talking about history, not trying to pretend that they're actually in the past.Second, if you're going to insult the Japanese by calling them "Nips" , you'd better be ready to be called a "redneck", "hick", or even a "yankee" (an ironic insult, I guess). From my experience, un-PC types are quite surprised to learn that it goes both ways ("What, you mean those red/brown/black folk can call us names too?"). Get used to it.
As stated before I was not referring to the Japanese per se, but rather to something very closely associated with
***IMPERIAL DAI NIPPON.***
I recommend that you reevaluate you hyper-sensitive PC proclivities, and consider the --now let's all say it-- CONTEXT in which a word is used, prior to posting sanctimonious Charlie Sierra.
>Interesting choice of words - you war-mongering-ignorant-yankee.
First of all, I'm not a yankee...
I'm a Texan.
Secondly, let me introduce you PC clods to a new word --context--.
Can you say 2nd Lts. George Welch, and Kenneth Taylor. There, I knew you could.
The Affleck, and Hartnett characters are based on Welch, and Taylor, who shot down 7 to 10 Nip aircraft during the attack.
George Welch went on to score 16 confirmed air-to-air victories during WW2. He later was a test pilot with North American Aviation after WW2 where did some of the flight testing for the F-86 prototype, the XP-86. In 1997 the USAF confirmed that Welch actually broke the sound barrier, in a dive, while flight testing the XP-86 at Muroc a week prior to Chuck Yeagers Mach 1 flight in the XS-1. Additionally, Welch is 'rumored' to have unofficially shot down a half dozen Migs over Korea while 'performing demonstration flights' for new F-86 pilots with the USAF.
Unfortunately, Welch died while flight testing the YP-
100 Super Saber, which he had previously taken supersonic during on its first flight. This made him the first person to go supersonic in level flight in an air breathing aircraft.
All-in-all George Welch was quite the aviation hero.
For a fuller account of George Welch's Aviation Career see
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>I think you're misusing the word "context". You're alive and talking in the present, about a movie which was released in the last few days.If this were actually 1941, maybe you could get away with using the word "Nips", but it's not. When was the last time you heard a historian use the word "Nigger"? Never, because they know that they're talking about history, not trying to pretend that they're actually in the past.Second, if you're going to insult the Japanese by calling them "Nips" , you'd better be ready to be called a "redneck", "hick", or even a "yankee" (an ironic insult, I guess). From my experience, un-PC types are quite surprised to learn that it goes both ways ("What, you mean those red/brown/black folk can call us names too?"). Get used to it. As stated before I was not referring to the Japanese per se, but rather to something very closely associated with ***IMPERIAL DAI NIPPON.*** I recommend that you reevaluate you hyper-sensitive PC proclivities, and consider the --now let's all say it-- CONTEXT in which a word is used, prior to posting sanctimonious Charlie Sierra.
>Interesting choice of words - you war-mongering-ignorant-yankee. First of all, I'm not a yankee... I'm a Texan. Secondly, let me introduce you PC clods to a new word --context--.
"For a fuller account of George Welch's Aviation Career see:" The URL is http://home.att.net/~historyzone/Welch1.html Sorry 'bout that...
Can you say 2nd Lts. George Welch, and Kenneth Taylor. There, I knew you could.
The Affleck, and Hartnett characters are based on Welch, and Taylor, who shot down 7 to 10 Nip aircraft during the attack.
George Welch went on to score 16 confirmed air-to-air victories during WW2. He later was a test pilot with North American Aviation after WW2 where did some of the flight testing for the F-86 prototype, the XP-86. In 1997 the USAF confirmed that Welch actually broke the sound barrier, in a dive, while flight testing the XP-86 at Muroc a week prior to Chuck Yeagers Mach 1 flight in the XS-1. Additionally, Welch is 'rumored' to have unofficially shot down a half dozen Migs over Korea while 'performing demonstration flights' for new F-86 pilots with the USAF.
Unfortunately, Welch died while flight testing the YP-
100 Super Saber, which he had previously taken supersonic during on its first flight. This made him the first person to go supersonic in level flight in an air breathing aircraft.
All-in-all George Welch was quite the aviation hero.
For a fuller account of George Welch's Aviation Career see
To be specific AT-6 Texans were used for Zekes, and BT-13s were used for the Kate Torpedo Plans. I can't recall aircraft were used for Vals.