Book Review: Five eyewitness accounts from the Pacific War
What follows here is less a book review than an annotated bibliography; in my studies of the Imperial Japanese Navy I found that there are hundreds of secondary sources (many of them excellent), but the primary source data, particularly in English, can be harder to find. At the same time, Western sources can lose sight of the primary subject matter and cloud the historiography with implicit (and sometimes explicit) bias.
Tony Boccia
37 minutes ago
Kanrin Maru Memorial - San Francisco
San Francisco's Lincoln Park, situated on the northwest of the peninsula, is home to several memorials and monuments. Among these are military fortifications, a Holocaust Memorial, and a marker for the end of the Lincoln Highway. Situated among these landmarks, not far fron a statue of El Cid, is the Kanrin Maru Memorial. This place marks a seminal event in pacific history; the first time a Japanese ship made landfall in the United States, in 1860.
Tony Boccia
Oct 2
Traces of the Second World War in and around Iwakuni 岩国
MCAS Iwakuni is situated on an island formed by the divergence of the Nishiki River into the Monzen and Imazu Rivers, emptying into Hiroshima Bay just south of Miyajima. Much of the area was purchased by the Imperial Japanese Army in 1938; the following year saw the establishment of the Iwakuni Naval Air Group 岩國海軍航空隊, a flight training command working in tandem with the Imperial Japanese Navy academy at Etajima.
Tony Boccia
Sep 26