Never Look Back: 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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... Battleship Row , Pearl Harbor , 7:55 AM , December 7 , 1941 Japan's Invasion of Luzon , the Philippines , December 10-24 , 1941 The Southwest Pacific The U.S. Invasion of Luzon , the Philippines , January 9 , 1945 The Maximum Extent of ...
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... battleship fleet on a world cruise with a stop in Tokyo included to calm jingoist bluster. Their Tokyo reception was stage-managed beautifully but did nothing to relieve Japanese-American tensions. “We were near war with Japan in 1913 ...
... battleship fleet on a world cruise with a stop in Tokyo included to calm jingoist bluster. Their Tokyo reception was stage-managed beautifully but did nothing to relieve Japanese-American tensions. “We were near war with Japan in 1913 ...
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... battleships—particularly the forthcoming leviathans Yamato and Musashi, 70,000 tons each—were “about as useful as the Great Wall of China.” The naval general staff disagreed; it did not share Yamamoto's enthusiasm for the aircraft ...
... battleships—particularly the forthcoming leviathans Yamato and Musashi, 70,000 tons each—were “about as useful as the Great Wall of China.” The naval general staff disagreed; it did not share Yamamoto's enthusiasm for the aircraft ...
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... battleships were sunk with aerial torpedoes, while only two British aircraft were lost. The British had used torpedoes that had run at a very shallow depth from the moment of release from their aircraft. Yamamoto was intrigued. If the ...
... battleships were sunk with aerial torpedoes, while only two British aircraft were lost. The British had used torpedoes that had run at a very shallow depth from the moment of release from their aircraft. Yamamoto was intrigued. If the ...
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Contents
From Pearl Harbor to Java | |
Coral Sea and Midway | |
First Allied Land Victories | |
The Marianas and the Philippines | |
Submarines Firebombs and Survival | |
The CBI Theater | |
The Final Campaigns | |
Japan Surrenders | |
References | |
Index | |
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