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How do you get info on army soldier in WWII in 1945-46 serving in occupied Japan?
... how the operation is usually described in American histories and documentaries, but from what I read in Japanese books, it was not really the case. Rather, following the April 1942 raid by Doolittle&...
Many people claim somehow that using the atomic bomb against Japan was 'immoral'. They claim the war could have been won using 'conventional' methods instead.
I'm curious ...
...an of sense in Washington at the end of November 1941 knew that this country was going to be at war with Japan within six months, and Roosevelt of course was a man of sense. He probably even welcomed ...
I believe I once read that the Americans only engaged five out of the ninety divisions Japan had deployed during the war. The vast bulk of the Japanese army was fighting the huge masses of people in C...
...44 to June 1945. My job description, radar countermeasures, was declared essential for the war effort in Japan and so I was placed aboard one of several B-17s, flew to Prestwick for fueling, Iceland f...
There is an interesting short web site about Japan's
only aircraft raid on the U.S mainland during WWII.
http://www.outwestnewspaper.com/bomboregon.html
John Decker
Virtually none, depending on your definition of 'organized.' In Japan, none whatsoever. Of course, both these nations were well and throroughly beaten over a period of years, and the soldier...
The USA and Japan conducted an exchange of diplomatic personnel. The USA used the two exchanges to also send red cross parcels for POWs.
...rved this in the Pacific theater. Huge quantities of weapons and materiel stockpiled for the invasion of Japan were bulldozed into the Pacific Ocean after VE day....
It seems to me you are conflating WWII and the Cold War. The occupation of Germany, Italy, and Japan would have ended in the 1950s in the normal course of events, at the latest, and there was no reaso...
You missed the point(again.) The discussion is about Americans living in the U.S. who happened to be of Japanese ancestry. They were treated as enemies by their government (that would be the U.S. of A...
...Phillipines 14 Nov 44; landed Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Phillipines 27 Jan 45 as Sixth Army Reserve. Arrived Japan for Occupation Duty 22 Oct 45 Inactivated 28 Feb 46 in Japan
Can't help you with...
...is. Could U.S. have nuked USSR in 1946? Did they already build more bombs after the first two dropped on Japan? And if they did, did US have the capability to safely deliver these bombs on USSR?...
...en Germany. He's tired, but an experienced soldier... a valuable tool(in the strictest sense). Then Japan is the only enemy remaining. Battle tested soldiers were needed, and after a brief leave ...
...ne might be Pacific Assualt,which was about a Marine named Tommy Conlin who was fight in the war against Japan.It seems pretty good a gives us a little bit about the life of a marine in WWII....
...volved prostitution and drug smuggling in the Far East.
The U.S. was never a member, and Germany and Japan withdrew in the wearly '30s....
...ome of the accounts of the attack on Hamburg (eg, in Rhodes), some of the accounts of the firebombing of Japan, etc.
You see, air raid sirens don't always sound when they should...
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...he war. Something else you are likely not aware of, as you seem European, and not asisan. The US REBUILT Japan. What more should we do to satisfy your (misplaced) morality?
What does this mean?
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...f the greatest myths about Pearl Harbour is that the Americans were totally unprepared and that war with Japan was a complete surprise.
The Americans did expect trouble with Japan. The policy for ...
...ilarity. He was captured with the rest of the 2-131st FA (Texas NG) on Java. After he was transferred to Japan, a Japanese guard finally noticed that Fujita had a Japanese name. He risked execution fo...
...t. In the recent WWII in Hi Def series on TV : the statement "In November 1941, Germany, Italy and Japan renew their military alliance...and all agree to safeguard their common interests".....
...an't, SIR, because it's BS.
I am also still waiting for you to back up your statement that Japan had no operational rail service at the time of Hiroshima. The trains were running through...
...US forces were committed en masse to fight Germany, rather than the more immediately popular war against Japan (who, after all, was the sneak attacker), was Roosevelt's strategic decision....
...was for 'real veterans'. My dad served 1942-1946 mostly in the U.S. and then the occupation of Japan and never saw combat. He did not think he deserved to be considered a veteran. In my town...
That the US had undesirable racial policies is true. However, in comparison to other countries of that era, the US wasn't much different.
It also must be noted that US racial policies were by...
...erritory from the east coast, to the mississippi river, including St Louis. Italy, the state of florida. Japan, all territory from the mississippi, to the west coast. But the one plan all three powers...
...the most damage to Germany from the air.
The Soviets really took very little part in the war against Japan until the last week or so in 1945.
From late 1944 however France was treated as an equ...
... died, Truman appointed him Secretary of State. He was a hard liner demanding unconditional surrender of Japan and use of the atomic bomb.
One book, 'Sly & Able' by Robertson speaks ...
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