Quote: (04-21-2014 09:06 AM)Billy Chubbs Wrote:
It is a shame how the pacific theatre receives only a fraction of the attention the European one receives. Also sort of bizarre, considering that (and no offense to my American friends here) the pacific campaign was almost exclusive won by Americans, and normally Muricah would be stroking themselves hard over that fact. I guess the images of fighting Nazis is just sexier in the public mind.
For example, how many people here know that Japan actually invaded a part of Alaska during WW2?
Everyone knows about the Battle of the Bulge.
How many know about the Bataan Death March or the treatment of prisoners in the camps?
The Japs were just as, if not more, murderous as the Nazis but few make that correlation or have the knowledge. The only thing that is commonly known about the Pacific war is Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima. Most don't even know the name of the second city we nuked.
Wonder why that is...