japanese soldier statue in the yasukuni shrine

soldier statue 

One of many Japanese air raid shelters on Aslito Airfield on the south end of Saipan.  The shelter would likely hold 20 men comfortably, 40 in a pinch.  After being taken by the US during the invasion, the field was renamed Isley Field after a US Navy pilot who died attacking the airfield while under Japanese control.

Japanese Air Raid Shelter on Saipan

Monument in Mopertingen, Belgium for it's liberation on Sept. 7th, 1944 by members of the 113th Cavalry Group. The 113th was spearheading the 30th division through Belgium.  The stone monument was realized in 1994 and the Sherman tank in 2004.  The folks of Mopertingen had no information about their real liberators so they mistakenly attributed it to the 2nd Armored Division.  The Sherman tank was recovered from some training grounds of the Belgian Army.  The Sherman would have been originally used by the British Army in WWII and then sold to the Belgian Army.  

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