Posted on 02/16/2020 10:58:40 PM PST by KJC1
“Rampage”, James M. Scott, 2018
About the battle and massacres in Manila, of which it is the 75th anniversary today. The ONLY semi-comprehensive treatment of that incident, in a book dedicated to it, published in the US. Its worth getting, as it is very well done indeed, in a style very similar to Cornelius Ryan (”The Longest Day”), but you may need a strong mind and a strong stomach.
There were also about 1000 dead Americans btw.
There is also a military history by Connaughton, and a couple of works published in the Philippines, the best one is by Aluit, though its been out of print for 20 years.
Compare to the ... hundreds? of volumes on the Japanese internment. And films, television, curricula, etc.
To hell with the nipons. They were the WW2 ISIS types that needed to be watched. They practiced lying just like the mooslims.
> The internment of Japanese (at the hands of a Democrat President) was unnecessary
That’s at least arguable. That your statement is certainly politically correct should lead you to question it.
Magic: The Untold Story of U.S. Intelligence and the Evacuation of Japanese Residents from the West Coast During Ww II
https://www.amazon.com/Magic-Intelligence-Evacuation-Japanese-Residents/dp/0960273611
At the very least it was a much tougher question for WWII leaders than politically correct nostrums would have you believe. And I’m certainly no fan of FDR.
Ignorant pols and others seem to forget what the Japanese armies did to the Chinese...Koreans...and Filipinos..they forgot that the Japanese had taken two Aleutian islands...if it had been a remembrance of the depravity of humans throughout history...that would be more acceptable.
Japanese military kept my dad, my uncle and my grandparents prisoner in their concentration camp for three brutal hungry years. I don’t forgive.
Maybe if the Japs imprisoned your family for being European in China, you would feel differently.
Folks tend to forget the Europeans and Americans rounded up in Japan at the start of the war. Many were never seen again.
Oh, you mean like American citizens who left to fight for ISIS? Taliban? Citizenship is not the bleach that washes clean personal anti-American sentiments.
Why was the internment unnecessary? The Japanese invaded and held Alaskan islands during the war, while they observed a truce with the Soviet Union.
While there was financial hardship for the internees, they were cared for/treated well; not sure what options our government had at the time.
I will avoid commenting on some of the replies to my initial post (some of which contained historical errors and outright howlers) and make a blanket statement:
Yes, there WERE Japanese spies in the us (just like there were GERMAN spies, which led to mass-internment of German-Americans ... oh wait ... that didn’t happen)
Yes, in the hysteria of post Pearl-Harbor it is understadeable why the internment happened ...
... which did not make it right. Yes, there was more than a dollop of racism involved (Amerian was after all a racially divided nation at the time).
It just wasn’t one of the brightest moment in our history, OK?
Does anyone remember the fact that the Japanese-American GIs (many of whose family members were interned) were among the highest decorated for bravery in Europe?
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