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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 The Japanese admiral who was in charge of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the assault on Clark Field in the Philippines in 1944, was sent to Manila to fix the tactical situation by whatever means available. He focused on carriers, which were his biggest threat.
#2 On October 25, 1944, nine planes flew from Mabalacat and headed east over the vast and lonely Pacific. They were hoping to die for their admiral and the Emperor. They sighted a group of American escorts protecting the beachhead at Leyte, and attacked.
#3 The American military became aware of the suicide planes in January 1945, when they saw how many ships they could destroy in one mission. The Special Attack Corps was integrated into the defense plan of Okinawa in March 1945.
#4 The Japanese tactic of the banzai charge was too costly, and the meet them at the beach theory was replaced on Iwo by let the enemy come to us. On Okinawa, the Japanese used heavy artillery as an integral part of their weaponry, and the Americans were literally torn to pieces.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	03 mai 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669399469
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

The Japanese admiral who was in charge of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, and the assault on Clark Field in the Philippines in 1944, was sent to Manila to fix the tactical situation by whatever means available. He focused on carriers, which were his biggest threat.

#2

On October 25, 1944, nine planes flew from Mabalacat and headed east over the vast and lonely Pacific. They were hoping to die for their admiral and the Emperor. They sighted a group of American escorts protecting the beachhead at Leyte, and attacked.

#3

The American military became aware of the suicide planes in January 1945, when they saw how many ships they could destroy in one mission. The Special Attack Corps was integrated into the defense plan of Okinawa in March 1945.

#4

The Japanese tactic of the banzai charge was too costly, and the meet them at the beach theory was replaced on Iwo by let the enemy come to us. On Okinawa, the Japanese used heavy artillery as an integral part of their weaponry, and the Americans were literally torn to pieces.

#5

On April 6, the Japanese sent a single-engined kamikaze plane towards the Bush at Picket Station One. The plane was evading the ship’s gunners when it crashed into the port side of the Bush, nearly cutting the destroyer in two. The Bush was now a derelict, both sides gaping, wreckage and death inside her hull.

#6

On April 6, the Japanese Navy tried to turn Okinawa into a victory for the Emperor by sending the battleship Yamato towards the island. She was accompanied by two cruisers and six destroyers.

#7

The Battle of Okinawa was the last land campaign of the Pacific war. It was a slaughter, and it proved to be the last battle the Japanese would fight with such ferocity. The land war was a brutal struggle between the Americans and the Japanese, and it resembled Japan itself.

#8

The last Imperial Japanese Army offensive in World War II took place on May 4-5, 1945. It was a chaotic, costly, and for the Japanese, hopeless battle. The initiative had passed forever to the Americans by V-E Day.

#9

The Japanese situation deteriorated steadily through May and the early part of June as American forces pushed into the southernmost area of the island. On May 31, the last bastion, Shuri Castle, fell. The American infantrymen who entered the castle saw a scene of utter devastation. Nothing lived there except for a Methodist church and a two-story concrete building.

#10

On the eighteenth of June, General Simon Bolivar Buckner came to the forward positions to oversee the mop-up. He died of a gunshot wound to the chest. On the twenty-first of June, Generals Ushijima and Cho sat down to a sumptuous meal in their home under Hill 89. They were followed by several staff officers.

#11

The B-29 bomber was a superior weapon, but it was not being used the way it should have been in Japan. Curtis Lemay, a strategic bombing specialist, was brought in to fix the situation. He learned the rude facts of modern air strategy and proved a brilliant, resourceful commander.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The B-29 was a bomber that could fly across the Pacific and strike at the enemy’s industries. It was the answer to the Army Air Force’s search for a Very Long Range bomber, but so far the efforts to use it effectively in the Pacific had brought nothing but frustration.

#2

The bombing attempts on Tokyo were failing, and Lemay had to come up with a new plan. He decided to fly over the city at night and low altitude, which would confuse the manually controlled weapons surrounding it.

#3

The Meetinghouse flight went ahead as planned on March 9, at twilight. 1300 motors roared into the night as 325 massive B-29’s left their hardstands and formed a continuing line of bombers moving toward the ends of runways. One by one, they lifted into the sky.

#4

The firebombing of Tokyo killed thousands of people. People died standing up in the close-packed, airless shelters. The only possible exits were the bridges spanning the Sumida River. Across the river, in the blackness of the wholly untouched portions of the city, victims could see safety.

#5

On March 10, a Japanese student stood on her roof four miles west of Meetinghouse, and saw a glow in the eastern sky. She called her family to see the beautiful sunrise, but it was not a sunrise they saw, but the funeral pyre for over 100,000 souls.

#6

The fire raids on Tokyo had proved successful in destroying the capital, and the average Japanese civilian was willing to entrust his deliverance from terror to the abilities of statesmen and militarists.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

In the Summer of 1944, when the jushin, the elder statesmen of Japan, succeeded in removing Hideki Tojo as Premier, they did not in any way diminish the power of the militaristic policy he represented.

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