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Originally Posted by diametricalbenz
Doug you're right yes, the Japanese did kill a lot of Chinese when they invaded which is mostly the reason why my grandparents were literally running for their lives at the time. As a result it's a sore subject and they only talked about it once when we were doing a family tree. As a result there are a lot of holes in the chart due to lost memories or suppression.
Anyhow that scene in Raiders is funny but it was accidental because Ford was extremely sick at the time.....freeze frame the DVD and you'll see that he looks like he's about to keel over. So becuase he was sick they opted to just shoot the swordsman. 
Those cold steel blades are tri-laminated. You can see the seam on either side of the sharpened blade.
The true Japanese blades have many many more layers as the numbers of layers are compounded at a geometric rate. After just 20 folds you have a million layers which creates an amazing product when complete. |
The Japanese woodworking chisels actually have a very hard layer of steel laminated to a softer layer of iron (old ship anchors were preferred at one time) so that when you sharpen them, they are easy to sharpen because you are mostly honing the iron, but the thin layer of hard steel at the cutting edge will hold it's edge longer than any other chisels that I know of.
Speaking of WWII, I remember when the miniseries "The Halocaust" came on Dutch TV. Per our Pa, we were not allowed to watch it. And he sat in the den reading a book for the evenings that it was on, so we would not turn it on. He was forced labor for the Nazis in a plant manufacturing optics for gun sights. He and his other Dutch and Belgian engineer friends figured out some way to ruin the accuracy of the sights while still allowing them to test out correctly. He had to deal with the Germans later in life in his role as a metallurgical engineer for Philips but he never liked the majority. It is kind of like Canada vs. the US but Germany invaded the Netherlands three times in a 100 year period.