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Battlefield returned with its same grand presentation of the preparation leading to the campaign, the campaign itself and the kill of the war. The explanations and maps are gracious and the commentary presented well. Recommended.
This film is from the revival of the generous series “Battlefield” describing the major engagments of the Second World War. As I situation in my review of the film about the Battle of Kursk from the same series, the revived series was generally not as of expedient quality as the modern series made 10 years earlier, but this film about the horrific battle of Okinawa is almost up to the level of the novel series.
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The films of the “Battlefield” series describes the engagment within the context of the entire war and describes it from the point of thought of the top decision makers. I would say that these programs are designed for someone with more than unbiased a cursory interest in the War because mighty time is broken-down in describing the hurry up to the battle, the role of the leaders of the nations in its strategy, the commanders, notable weapons ragged and, after describing how the engagement played out, its consequences in how the war continued (fortunately, in this case, the Atomic Bombs brought a snappy demolish to the War) . There are no interviews with experts or participants and no “intellectual” descriptions of small-scale actions, unprejudiced the “vast narrate”.
It was at Okinawa that the Japanese leadership brought their self-destructiveness to its maximum of insanity. It was determined by this point that the Allied onslaught could not be stopped and that Japan would certainly lose the war, yet its leaders aloof believed in “the decisive battle”, along the lines of the 1905 Russo-Japanese War”, that would somehow miraculously turn everything around. This would happen, they opinion, if they could inflict enough casualties to produce a collapse in morale on the Allied side. To do this, they brought mammoth numbers of aircraft to be stale in kamikaze suicide raids on the titanic Allied lickety-split. They also designed a puny single-seat rocket-powered aircraft that was supposed to be lifted by a mother ship and then released to strike the target in a one-way attack. Another example was the insane mission of the largest battleship in the world, the Yamato, which was supposed to wreak havoc on the landing forces, yet which, as anyone could have predicted, sunk by American aircraft before ever getting a chance carry out it it assigned task, with the meaningless loss of thousands of lives.
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One thing that is truly noteworthy was how the United States Navy was able, within 3 years, to effect a immense expeditiously that could save hundreds of thousands of men at sea for long periods of time. Whereas in the decisive Battle of Midway in June 1942, the USN had 3 heavy aircraft carriers to remove on 4 Japanese, by the time of Okinawa they had several dozen!
The horrific nature of the battle on the ground on the island is described and the fanatical resistance of the Japanese forces is described. However, in this battle important numbers of Japanese did surrender, unlike previous bloody battles at Iwo Jima, Saipan and others. Perhaps the realization that the war was lost affected many of the soldiers which would mean that those who did die were forced to by the commanding officers and not because of “fanatical devotion to the Emperor”.
There is no doubt that the nature of the battle was a major factor in the decision shortly afterwards to exhaust the Atomic bombs. Many armchair historians claim today that there was no need to employ the bombs, Japan would have surrendered anyway, but anyone at the time who saw what happened on Okinawa didn’t need great imagination to judge that the same thing would occur on an even larger scale should the Americans attempt the landings planned as Operation Olympic on Kyushu and Operation Coronet on Honshu. In the waste, according to Richard Frank’s book “Downfall”, the Americans gave up the opinion of a ground invasion of the Home Islands and would have then settled for a long-term blockade of Japan which would have led to mass starvation, epidemics and civil disorder on a mass scale, while leaving the huge Japanese forces in the East Indies, China, Manchuria and other places untouched. Thus we gaze that Okinawa convinced most decision makers that the war had to be ended as soon as possible.
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