Today marks the 80th Anniversary of the surrender of (Colonial) Singapore. A day of infamy that proves that Japan was a more fearsome opponent than Germany in World War 2.
Let's face it. The Red Baron and his Flying Circus (with the exception of the Red Baron's wingman) would be nowhere near as bad as the Imperial Japanese Army. Had Snoopy been defeated by the Japanese, he would have no chance of crying away or to even say "How Embarrassing!" because being captured by the Japanese means it's off to the Death Railway in Burma, and many people who were forced to work on the Death Railway did not survive to see the end of the war. If Snoopy was sent to Burma's Death Railway as forced labour, he would wish that he was defeated by the Red Baron and his Flying Circus instead of the Empire of Japan. No wonder Peanuts author Charles M. Schulz gave the name "World War 2" to a mean cat. Snoopy was actually what Schulz wanted to be, but the war the Peanuts author fought in altered his life. The German Army was fearsome, but the Japanese were a totally different level. If Snoopy fought against a Zero Fighter instead of a Fokker Triplane, he would have been torn to shreds, and he would not survive getting captured. Scary, isn't it?
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