By Paul Brickhill
"A annoying, exciting, extraordinary tale."—Philadelphia Inquirer
They have been American and British air strength officials in a German felony camp. With in basic terms their naked palms and the crudest of do-it-yourself instruments, they sank shafts, solid passports, faked guns, and adapted German uniforms and civilian outfits. They constructed a gorgeous safety method to guard themselves from German surveillance. It was once a split-second operation as gentle and as lethal as a time bomb. It demanded the targeted devotion and vigilance of greater than 600 men—every one in all them, each minute, each hour, each day and evening for greater than a yr. Made into the vintage motion picture starring Steve McQueen. sixteen pages of pictures
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They chose other bases in more hospitable climes, but the Aleutians remained of potential strategic importance for much of the war. The Japanese occupied two of the islands, Attu and Kiska, as an adjunct to their Midway operation. The Japanese thus faced a number of complex possibilities at the end of Stage One operations. The War History Series explains these possibilities in terms of the choices that the Japanese war leadership faced. The difficult decisions were made in a spirit of detachment and consensus, although decisive leadership from the top was lacking.
The story of the war of attrition in the air is a complex tale of the interplay of men, machines, doctrines, and tactics. The Allies had an advantage from the beginning in their machines in the form of robust medium and heavy bombers, and later in their fighters as well. The Japanese used their Mitsubishi G4M Type 1 “Betty” land-based attack planes in roles similar to the Allied B-26 and B-25 medium bombers, and their Kawanishi H6K Type 97 “Mavis” flying boats like the Allied B-17 and B24 heavy bombers.
Evidence for Yamamoto’s offensive plan may be found in the various compromises that form the historical picture of the war as it unfolded. These include the Pearl Harbor air strike, the Midway operation, and the plans to invade Oahu and other key objectives in the Hawaiian Islands. The key to understanding the strategic plan is to acknowledge that Yamamoto recognized that the United States was the most dangerous enemy that Japan faced at the end of 1941, and that he understood that the best way to come to terms with the United States in all its real and potential force at that time was by negotiating an end to the war through a position of relative strength.