Toward Tokyo Bay

2021 ◽  
pp. 266-288
Author(s):  
Steven Casey
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Tokyo Bay ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
Air War ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Harry Truman

Okinawa received much more media attention from mid-May, after the German surrender. The censors also relaxed restrictions on reporting the kamikaze story, which reinforced the growing sense on the home front that the Pacific War was particularly brutal and bloody. As Harry Truman, the new president, looked for ways to end it, attention shifted to the air war. The air force happily publicized its incendiary bombing of Tokyo, followed by the destruction of the five largest cities in Japan. Even before the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, such carnage drew little protest across America.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 289-302
Author(s):  
Steven Casey
Keyword(s):  
Final Analysis ◽  
Home Front ◽  
Tokyo Bay ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Media ◽  
Military Relations ◽  
Shared Narrative

The Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay in September 1945 exemplified so much about the Pacific War and how it had been reported, from the large number of reporters who were finally in the theater to MacArthur’s effort to dominate the show. For once, the army and navy stood side by side without too much tension, but during the war competition between them had often shaped how the home front had received news from the battlefield. Tension had emerged between the services and the reporters as well, while veteran reporters had often evinced a deep disdain for those they considered dilettante interlopers. Conflict was therefore a hallmark of media-military relations during the Pacific War, but in the final analysis the media invariably acted as an important unifying voice, creating a shared narrative about the war that was rarely questioned by partisan politicians.

scholarly journals Pacific Brides: US Forces and Interracial Marriage during the Pacific War

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Wanhalla ◽  
Erica Buxton
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Racial Ideology ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
World War ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
European Theatre

Between 1942 and 1945, over two million servicemen occupied the southern Pacific theatre, the majority of them Americans in service with the Marines, Army, Navy and Air Force.  When the United States entered World War II in December 1941, they 'swept in a mighty deluge' doubling, sometimes tripling the populations of the Pacific Islands.  Their short but intense period of occupation in the South Pacific had far reaching consequences.  Not only did they dramatically alter the economies and environments of the islands, they also brought with them a set of ideas about race and intimacy encapsulated in legal codes, as well as social practices, which were applied to the organization of their own forces, and to the local populations.  American racial ideology also informed military regulations governing overseas marriages involving US forces, most notably inhibiting African American men's marital opportunities in the European theatre.

Japanese Foreign Policy on the Eve of the Pacific War, A Soviet View.

1973 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 238
Author(s):  
Stephen S. Large ◽  
Leonid N. Kutakov ◽  
George Alexander Lensen ◽  
George Alexander Lensen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Pacific War ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Soviet View ◽  
Japanese Foreign Policy
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