[Milsurplus] Recommendations

[Hue Miller]

Today I wish to recommend a couple websites for those with a history 
interest.

http://constitutioncenter.org/  has an exhibition until January 2011 in 
Phiadelphia
PA: "The Art of the American Soldier". Go to homepage > Art of American 
Soldier
> View Gallery: this gives you a movable timeline where you can select the 
> years.
The art from later period at least, is accompanied by audio of contemporary 
speeches
or pop music or news broadcasts. I found by clicking the particular art you 
can
enlarge it and also display the title. I have not yet tried to save any of 
the art works
but if anyone does and it is non-trivial I would appreciate the route you 
used.
I have only attended one Army art exhibit before, but I personally found it 
a
stunning, engrossing experience.

This website  http://cgi2.nhk.or.jp/shogenarchives/jpnews/list.cgi?  has a 
list
of WW2 NHK ( Nippon Hoso Kyokei, Japanese Broadcast ) newsreels. You
select the year and particular film. Vary from 2 minutes to about 10 or so.
I have not played with this much. My first impressions, not extremely
revelatory or interesting, seems to be mostly "Hurray for our team"
with photos of moving troops, happy native populations, wrecked
Allied equipment.  One late war film showed a crash landed B-25
in pretty good condition, likewise its captured crew, looking quite
hale and healthy, much unlike their condition at the end of their stay
as laborers for the Emperor.
I was mostly looking for shots of the interior of Japanese planes.
Some nice films of planes taking off on missions. One maybe
a kamikaze mission, I cannot see why the officer would be shaking
the pilots hands at the start of mission otherwise. I read that with
Google toolbar you can have the accompanying text simultaneously
presented in English but I have not tried that. If you try this I would
appreciate comments on how that worked out, also any particular
film episodes you found interesting.
( via: Hue Miller )