Can suicidal bravery and fanatical determination make up for material, industrial and numerical insufficiency? As the Asia-Pacific conflict turns against the Japanese these questions are put to the test. The results are nightmarish.
What you're about to hear is part five of what we can now confidently say is going to be a six part series on Japan and the war in Asia and the Pacific theater in the second World War.
If you didn't catch the earlier editions of this, you might want to, if you don't mind, or if you already did.
Well, then, without further ado, part five of supernova in the east, December 7.
It's history in infamy, the events.
That's one small step for man, one Mandev.
I take pride in the words the drum.
Ich bin ein bielina.
Mister Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
Eight six, the Manhattan urgent marine six hour two has had a major explosion and the deep question surrounding the entire area.
I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their president's a crook.
Well, I'm not a crook.
If we dig deep in our history and our doctrine and remember that we are not deceased, it's hardcore history.
Banana seal Paul we left off this story talking about a Japanese advance on the second largest island in the world, New guinea, which is part of the main theater of conflict in mid 1942 in the Pacific, New guinea and the Solomon Islands, specifically at this time, Guadalcanal, where the marines have just landed in strengthen and for quite a while in 1942, really the rest of 1942.
This will be the focus in this part of the world now.
We should not forget certain other things.
The Japanese are fighting in China, have been since before this war started, will be fighting there till the end.
That's never going away.
And the Chinese get little credit in most countries for tying down the great bulk of japanese forces and resources.
The Japanese are also fighting in Burma, whats now Myanmar, against indian forces, british forces, some burmese forces, and other friends, chinese forces, too, by the way, in Burma.
And theyre fighting Australians and Americans in the New Guinea Solomon islands area.