HIST-3330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Grenade, Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Unconditional Surrender
28 Mar 2016
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Bansai would rather be killed than taken prisoner. Okinawa was the irst island where there was a considerable amount of japanese populaion. American b-29 bomber was very tough and their targets were ciies. They didn"t make an efort to seek out military buildings/bases. B-29s over tokyo with many small (300) incendiary bombs. Americans had the doctrine of no deals/surrender - uncondiional surrender less of a chance to play americans against the other allied powers how to deal with japan and how to treat them. Japanese surrendered uncondiionally, americans executed about 700 in war crime trials. Yoshida said japan needed to surrender and make peace and was then jailed, served many years as prime minister and friend of americans. Tanaka kakuei eventually became the king of poliical corrupion. Let home and went to tokyo at 16 years old. He was arrogant and didn"t get along well with superiors.
