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Hi,
Yes, agreed. The Yanks are nowadays criticised often for being warlike, but their campaign in the Pacific was a very different matter for them, and us too.
Many of their island battles produced casualty figures more akin to WW1, for instance, more than 12000 Americans were killed at Okinawa, with 1000's more dying later of their wounds.
Then what of the Japanese? 110000 dead in the same battle, and no-one knows accurately how many civilians died there.
So I'll be interested to see how the series treats this. It is known that the American population by mid 1945 was becoming so restive about the lengthening casualty lists (and they lost over 135000 killed in Europe too) that it was a major factor in President Truman's decision to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. It is estimated that if mainland Japan had been invaded, there would have been about 400000 Allied casualties.
I'd like to see more Australian movies along these lines too (remembrance I mean). Kokoda was fairly good at that I thought, and gave a picture of the conditions there, but Australians also endured many awful battles later.
I can't say Cheers about this
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