[Jerry V]

I've just gotten to this book. Yup, I saw that "Bomb Tokyo" game. Imagine that: American kids were playing a game sorta like our somewhat current day, "Battle Ship", or "Broadside" or "Dogfight"; while the little Japanese school children were being taught-FOR REAL-how to spear, maim and kill the American invaders, with bamboo spears, should they ever land on the Japanese homeland.

Link to the book: Blue Bolt v03 12

[Captain Audio]

while the little Japanese school children were being taught-FOR REAL-how to spear, maim and kill the American invaders, with bamboo spears, should they ever land on the Japanese homeland.

Despite the mythology of the USA being gun crazy even the pre WW2 Japanese, who are now held up as a gun free society, were teaching their school children to handle firearms from an early age. I've seen a few of their "School Rifles" those for the elementary schools being perfect scaled down versions of infantry rifles. This was why Japanese riflemen were so deadly accurate. Shooting galleries were open to the public, full size rifles with smooth bored barrels firing aerodynamic stabilized lead darts were used for close range practice in instinctive shooting.