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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... Submarines , Firebombs , and Survival Submarine Warfare Life in Japan Life in Japan's Empire Japan Prepares for Invasion Japanese - Americans in the United States The First World War proved the value of the submarine as a naval weapon ...
... Submarines , Firebombs , and Survival Submarine Warfare Life in Japan Life in Japan's Empire Japan Prepares for Invasion Japanese - Americans in the United States The First World War proved the value of the submarine as a naval weapon ...
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... submarine might have torpedoed a Japanese vessel . None had . The first days of the American submarine effort were not glorious ; Admiral Thomas Hart , in charge of the small Asiatic Fleet , discovered that many of his skippers were a ...
... submarine might have torpedoed a Japanese vessel . None had . The first days of the American submarine effort were not glorious ; Admiral Thomas Hart , in charge of the small Asiatic Fleet , discovered that many of his skippers were a ...
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... submarine victims . The most impor- tant of these was probably Shinano . Begun as a slightly larger version of Yamato , Shinano was the largest warship hull ever constructed to that date . Since time had proven the now deceased Yamamoto ...
... submarine victims . The most impor- tant of these was probably Shinano . Begun as a slightly larger version of Yamato , Shinano was the largest warship hull ever constructed to that date . Since time had proven the now deceased Yamamoto ...
Contents
Prelude to Conflict | 3 |
Planning Operation Hawaii | 27 |
From Pearl Harbor to Java Sea | 47 |
Copyright | |
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