Never Look Back: A History of World War II in the Pacific50 years ago, Japan attacked Pearl Harbour and brought a reluctant America into World War II. Armed with fresh materials, which have become available only in the last decade, Renzi and Roehrs take a critical look at the decisive Japanese-American episodes in "The Great Pacific War". Unlike standard histories of World War II, "Never Look Back" includes the Japanese perspective, bringing to light challenging facts: in "Operation Flying Elephant" the Japanese attempted to cause forest fires in the American West by releasing hydrogen-filled balloons. When Americans of Japanese ancestry were interned during the conflict, word reached Japan of their plight and resulted in even greater mistreatment of American POWs in Japan. It is argued that Japan did not surrender because of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki or because of the conventional firebombing or because of the US submarine campaign, but because the USSR entered the war. |
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Page 98
... hand , America had mobilized impressive military and naval might that dwarfed what Japan had marshalled in 1941. At least 110,000 Japanese fighting men had been bypassed on islands , left to spend the remainder of the conflict squinting ...
... hand , America had mobilized impressive military and naval might that dwarfed what Japan had marshalled in 1941. At least 110,000 Japanese fighting men had been bypassed on islands , left to spend the remainder of the conflict squinting ...
Page 171
... hand grenades to pitch into American landing craft . On the morning of April 1 , 1945 - Easter Sunday — the American ... hand to hand . It was to be their worst trial of the war . Soldiers or marines frequently took temporary refuge in ...
... hand grenades to pitch into American landing craft . On the morning of April 1 , 1945 - Easter Sunday — the American ... hand to hand . It was to be their worst trial of the war . Soldiers or marines frequently took temporary refuge in ...
Page 175
... hands in front of their faces - had sometimes made hand - to- hand fighting almost like mud wrestling . In some cases Americans and Japanese had literally strangled each other to death . Excavations on the island to this day ...
... hands in front of their faces - had sometimes made hand - to- hand fighting almost like mud wrestling . In some cases Americans and Japanese had literally strangled each other to death . Excavations on the island to this day ...
Contents
Prelude to Conflict | 3 |
Planning Operation Hawaii | 27 |
From Pearl Harbor to Java Sea | 47 |
Copyright | |
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The China-Burma-India Campaign, 1931-1945: Historiography and Annotated ... Eugene L. Rasor No preview available - 1998 |