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WTF are these clips? Each clip starts from nowhere, there is nothing to say where the original source is. It must be a book that is fed piece-meal into a high quality voice reader which sounds almost perfect until it stumbles over simple things like a comma or reads “1000” instead of “ten o clock”, Hiryu turns randomly into High R U, etc. Why not give a tiny bit of background?

@dannycalley7777

Ай бұрын

AP ...............I think this is artificial Intel generated ,answering to questions posed by the creator ???

The American military often used starvation as an ally ---- bypassing fortified islands and leaving them to "wither on the vine." It seems to me that could have been done on portions of Okinawa, and even for avoiding TWO invasions of the Japanese home islands that were planned. Even as it was,. many Japanese would have STARVED after the war ended but for the United States bringing in large amounts of food to keep people alive. And that was in dramatic contrast to the accepted practice of conquering armies to confiscate whatever food was needed to feed the conquering army, leaving the dregs for the surviving population. As I understand it, the Japanese were AMAZED when Americans provided their own rations, and even more amazed when they provided food for the surrendered population. Suppose the United States had simply chose to embargo everything going into Japan, and targeted transportation and food stores to destroy ---- a campaign aimed at starvation until unconditional surrender. Of course, the atomic bombs made that unnecessary. But I would have found starvation attractive compared to the cost to Americans of two invasions of the Japanese home islands. Anyone care to speculate how long it would have taken for the emperor to see the virtues of surrender had starvation rather than atomic bombing or invasion been the chosen method?

@chrisarentsen1215

Ай бұрын

That would have taken a long time.

@The_OneManCrowd

16 күн бұрын

I think they were more worried about the Soviets invading Hokkaido.

I wonder if any American or Allied POWS were freed on Okinawa? Could have been captured elsewhere and held in POW camps, or even captured by Japanese on Okinawa. Never heard of any.

@arthursmith6854

Ай бұрын

Never heard of any either. Those held in POW camps in the Phillipines or IndoChina seem to either get killed there or, if not, transported to Japan proper. Okinawa wasn't seen as a good place for POW camps by the Japanese, apparently.

When US Grant ran up against impenetrable Confederate defenses, a resort to tunneling under the edefences, then filling the cavern with huge amounts of explosives was resorted to. The Japanese proved that tunnelling on Okinawa was quite practical. I wonder why Americans didn't resort to tunneling once everything else had tried and failed? Digging is better than dying.

@bennyboy2023

Ай бұрын

They used this tunneling method and blowing up from below in WW1! The British and the Germans I know did it.. I read a great book called “Bird song” by Sebastian Faulkes and the main character was a tunnel digger on the front lines.. fantastic read, would highly recommend

How many times did the Yamato really fight, seems she was around but never was effective

@arthursmith6854

Ай бұрын

Never did much at all. Bringing up the rear on Midway attack. No action there. Leyte Gulf maybe a bit. It sat in harbor for most of the war from everything I know.

@RalphTempleton-vr6xs

Ай бұрын

Agreed. The Yamato was a colossal waste of resources. The ship became more of a status symbol than a weapons system and in the end was wasted

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