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What really interesting is a very strange after war fate of this Commander. Especially period between 1947 and 1952. According to the wiki, after the war, Fuchida was called on to testify at the trials of some of the Japanese military for Japanese war crimes. This infuriated him as he believed this was little more than "victor's justice". In the spring of 1947 (Prange interviewed Fuchida on 29 June 1947), convinced that the Americans had treated the Japanese the same way and determined to bring that evidence to the next trial Fuchida went to Uraga Harbor near Yokosuka to meet a group of returning Japanese prisoners of war. He was surprised to find his former flight engineer, Kazuo Kanegasaki, who all had believed had died in the Battle of Midway. When questioned, Kanegasaki told Fuchida that they were not tortured or abused, much to Fuchida's surprise, and then went on to tell him of a young lady, Peggy Covell, who served them with the deepest love and respect, but whose parents, missionaries, had been killed by Japanese soldiers on the island of Panay and Philippines. For Fuchida, this was inexplicable, as in the Bushido code revenge was not only permitted, it was "a responsibility" for an offended party to carry out revenge to restore honor. The murderer of one's parents would be a sworn enemy for life. He became almost obsessed trying to understand why anyone would treat their enemies with love and forgiveness. Eventually Fuchida become interested in the Christian faith. In September 1949, after reading the Bible for himself, he became a Christian. In 1952, he toured the United States as a member of the Worldwide Christian Missionary Army of Sky Pilots. Fuchida remained dedicated to a similar initiative as the group for the remainder of his life. Maybe this religious experience made him more cooperative … I don’t know …

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Found original charter of MOPR

I familiar with his two previous books in "Man-at-War" series. Sounds like a book that is worth to check it out (especially since PDF version costs only £5.99)!

I see ... "Made by Faberge" by the way P.S. But this thread is not about fake St.Andrews, fake wines, etc... It's about Commanders report and my only point can be formulated like this. I simply can't understand why Commander Mitsuo Fuchida willingly gave up the such precious (if not sacred!) personal memorabilia to an american historian during 1947 interview. Not to mention that I don't think that he (or anyone else for that matter) would dare to add english subtitles to an original report. Maybe it will be much more realistically to assume that report on Christie's is a copy (or special version) that was prepared by Commander specifically for his 1947 interview. If Commander didn't "gave up" anything during his interview and original report was already in the possession of Prange, then why such strangely formulated provenance and English subs on original report.

Come on! Don't pay much attention to me Or even better idea - simply delete my previous post (if I remember correctly - this was your choice two years ago, when another "writer-moderator" got into a mess with his ridiculous "theories" ... Hope this one is still writing his "great book"...) Naaaaa It was of course my fault! But at least this time it wasn't about Olympics Posts # 184-185 http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/54861-pro-fide-lege-et-rege-imperial-russia-order-of-the-white-eagle/page-10 That's true! Good thing I am not an expert ;)

First of all I don't "feel free" to prove you anything. I don't care much about you or your "rarities" Second, as we know ;-) Thirdly, as you kindly put it once, I am always God bless you dear "moderator"

It wasn't?! How did you figure it out? By Frank comments? Well, good luck with this one too! P.S. To Claudius - hopefully now you understand better my PM to you.

I honestly believe that THE very same auction house sold five years ago very dubious (to put it very mildly) St.Andrew with diamonds for 481 k's. Good luck with that ...

I see " " wasn't enough Ok "Solid" provenance :whistle:

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Interesting illustration from Meyer's Großem Konversations-Lexikon (published in 1905)

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Check out this engraved RS from 1981 that recently appeared on the market

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Very first drawings of Rising Sun Order?!

Take a look at these drawings from 1871 (!!!) Prototype of Chrysanthemum?!

Seller posted more general photos

Solid provenance "Provenance: Lt. Commander Mitsuo Fuchida (1902-1976) -- Gordon W. Prange (1910-1980), historian attached to General Douglas MacArthur's Far East Command in the late 1940s founder of the Prange Institute. Prange interviewed Fuchida on 29 June 1947 (sale, Sotheby's, 3 May 1994, lot 104, $321,500). -- The Malcolm S. Forbes Collection."

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