Burma Banzai: The Air War in Burma through Japanese Eyes
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Air War in Burma through Japanese Eyes Atholl Sutherland Brown and William Rodney T he possibility of meeting Japanese pilots who flew in Burma during the Second World War occurred when the authors decided to attend the Commonwealth Aircrew Reunion, A Gathering of Eagles, scheduled to be held in Perth, Australia, 2-10 September 2000.Since Perth is, in effect, half way around the world we determined to continue the journey following the meetings and circumnavigate the globe, pausing en route in Burma (Myanmar).The decision to visit Burma in turn stemmed from Sutherland Brown's service there in WWII.It also prompted us to think it would be interesting as well as useful if we could meet Japanese aircrew who also flew in that theatre during the Burma campaign.As a consequence one of us wrote to the Military Attache at the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo, Captain S. Verran (N), citing who we were, listing our wartime service, our desire to meet Japanese counterparts, and asked if he could put us in touch with veteran organizations that could facilitate such an encounter.He responded immediately and suggested we contact Renichi Misawa, the President of the All Burma Veterans Association of Japan, as well as with a Japanese national in London, England, Masao Hirakubo, OBE, who had extensive contacts among ex-servicemen.Subsequent correspondence with them yielded additional names and addresses of possible contacts, and ultimately resulted in five pilots and Mr. Misawa, an anti-aircraft gunner with the 33rd Imperial Army at Imphal, agreeing to talk to us. 1 We eventually met on 28 August 2000 at 10:30 am at International House in Tokyo's Roppongi district.Mr. Munechika Ashiba, General Manager, at International House, very ably and enthusiastically acted as translator.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.023 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".