Interrogations of Japanese Officials
Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 1946
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 1946
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : United States Strategic Bombing Survey
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 1946
Category : Japan
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Author : Monica Kim
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 34,43 MB
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 069121042X
Traditional histories of the Korean War have long focused on violations of the thirty-eighth parallel, the line drawn by American and Soviet officials in 1945 dividing the Korean peninsula. But The interrogation rooms of the Korean War presents an entirely new narrative, shifting the perspective from the boundaries of the battlefield to inside the interrogation room. Upending conventional notions of what we think of as geographies of military conflict, Monica Kim demonstrates how the Korean War evolved from a fight over territory to one over human interiority and the individual human subject, forging the template for the U.S. wars of intervention that would predominate during the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond. Kim looks at how, during the armistice negotiations, the United States and their allies proposed a new kind of interrogation room: one in which POWs could exercise their "free will" and choose which country they would go to after the ceasefire. The global controversy that erupted exposed how interrogation rooms had become a flashpoint for the struggles between the ambitions of empire and the demands for decolonization, as the aim of interrogation was to produce subjects who attested to a nation's right to govern. The complex web of interrogators and prisoners -- Japanese-American interrogators, Indian military personnel, Korean POWs and interrogators, and American POWs -- that Kim uncovers contradicts the simple story in U.S. popular memory of "brainwashing" during the Korean War
Author : James A. Stone
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2010-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1437934935
Contents: (1) Interrogation of Japanese POWs in WW2: U.S. Response to a Formidable Challenge. Military leaders, often working with civilian counterparts, created and implemented successful strategies, building on cultural and linguistic skills that substantially aided the war effort for the U.S. and its Allies. (2) Unveiling Charlie: U.S. Interrogators¿ Creative Successes Against Insurgents. Highlights the importance of a deep understanding of the language, psychol., and culture of adversaries and potential allies in other countries. (3) The Accidental Interrogator: A Case Study and Review of U.S. Army Special Forces Interrogations in Iraq. Offers recommendations that are likely to increase the effectiveness of U.S. interrogation practices in the field. Illus.
Author : United States. Army Air Forces Intelligence Service
Publisher :
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 17,97 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Aeronautics, Military
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Author : Gian P. Gentile
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814731352
In the wake of WWII, President Truman established the US Strategic Bombing Survey to determine how effectively strategic air power had been applied during the war. The final study has been used for decades as an objective primary source and a guiding text. Gentile (history, US Military Academy) re-examines this document to reveal how it reflected the American conceptual approach to strategic bombing. He exposes the survey as largely tautological, throwing into question many of the central tenets of American air power philosophy and strategy. He shows how recent problems with bomb damage assessment in the Balkans reinforce his conclusions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 25,77 MB
Release : 1966
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Douglas MacArthur
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 24,40 MB
Release : 1966
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 38,80 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : Jim Smith
Publisher : Crown
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0307419479
A gripping account of the final American bombing mission of World War II and how it prevented a military coup that would have kept Japan in the war. How close did the Japanese come to not surrendering to Allied forces on August 15, 1945? The Last Mission explores this question through two previously neglected strands of late—World War II history, whose very interconnections could have caused a harrowing shift in the course of the postwar world. On the final night of the war, as Emperor Hirohito recorded a message of surrender for the Japanese people, a band of Japanese rebels, commanded by War Minister Anami's elite staff, burst into the palace. They had plotted a massive coup that aimed to destroy the recordings of the Imperial Rescript of surrender and issue false orders forged with the Emperor’s seal commanding the widely dispersed Japanese military to continue the war. If this rebellion had succeeded, the military would have proceeded with large-scale kamikaze attacks on Allied forces, costing huge casualties and just possibly provoking the Americans to drop a third atomic bomb on Japan over Tokyo–and continue to drop more bombs as Japanese resistance stiffened. Meanwhile, in the midst of an “end-of-war” celebration on Guam, Air Force radio operator Jim Smith and his fellow crewmen received urgent orders for a bombing mission over Japan’s sole remaining oil refinery north of Tokyo. As a stream of American B-29B bombers approached Tokyo, Japanese air defenses, fearing the approaching planes signaled the threat of a third atomic bomb, ordered a total blackout in Tokyo and the Imperial Palace, completely disrupting the rebels’ plans. Smith and his fellow crewmembers completed the mission, and a few hours later, the Emperor announced the surrender over Japan’s airwaves, dictating the end of the war. The Last Mission is an insightful piece of speculative investigation that combines narrative storytelling with historical contingency and explores how two seemingly unrelated events could have profoundly changed the course of modern history.