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  • Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation And Its Influence on World Events: by Polmar, Norman; Genda, Minoru (COL); Brown, Eric M. (COL);.
  • General Minoru Genda, late Captain Imperial Japanese Navy, passed away on 15 August , the 44th anniversary of the Japanese surrender and the day before his.
  • The speaker was to be retired Japanese General Minoru Genda, who had served with distinction as chief of staff of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force.

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    Days of Infamy series

    Novel by Harry Turtledove

    For the novel by Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen, see Days of Infamy (Newt Gingrich).

    Days of Infamy is a two-novel alternate history of the initial stages of the Pacific War by Harry Turtledove.[1]

    The major difference is that the Empire of Japan not only attacks Pearl Harbor, but follows it up with the landing and occupation of Hawaii.

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    In Days of Infamy, the logic of how the battle could have developed in Oahu is that the point of divergence occurs at a conference in March , when Commander Minoru Genda and Admiral Yamamoto manage to convince the Imperial Japanese Army to follow up the Pearl Harborair attack with an invasion to capture Hawaii whereas in reality, they did not.

    As is usual in Turtledove novels, the action occurs from several points of view, including historical figures such as Minoru Genda and Mitsuo Fuchida. Besides these historical figures, viewpoint character

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    The following article originally appeared in the International Journal of Naval History under the title, &#;Strategy, Language, and the Culture of Defeat: Changing Interpretations of Japan’s Pacific War Naval Demise,&#; and is republished with permission. Read it in its original form here.

    By Hal M. Friedman
    Henry Ford Community College

    Military historians say that military history is written from the perspective of the victor. Japan’s naval defeat in the Pacific War, however, provides a highly arguable case. Much of the translated postwar literature on the Pacific War has been written from an Allied perspective which overemphasizes Japanese weaknesses, deemphasizes the strengths of the Japanese military, and places defeat in a cultural and even racial context. This viewpoint raises the question of whether or not the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) lost the Pacific War because of national characteristics supposedly “unsuited” to twentieth century naval warfare, if Japan was defea

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    Taiheiy&#; no Tsubasa (Wings of the Pacific)
    Director: Sh&#;e Matsubayashi
    Scriptwriter: Katsuya Susaki
    Special Effects Director: Eiji Tsuburaya
    Cast: Toshir&#; Mifune as Commander Senda
       Y&#;z&#; Kayama as Lt. Shir&#; Taki
       Makoto Sat&#; as Lt. Teppei Yano
       Y&#;suke Natsuki as Lt. Nobuo Ataka
       Yuriko Hoshi as Miyako Tamai
    Toho, , min., DVD

    Near the end of World War II, top Japanese military leaders adopted suicide attacks as their main strategy to stop American forces advancing on the Japanese mainland, but certain senior officers never fully agreed with this approach. The spelfilm Taiheiy&#; no Tsubasa (Wings of the Pacific) depicts the historical exploits of Naval Air Group commanded by Capt. Minoru Genda (name changed to Senda in film), who strongly opposed the use of kamikaze tactics. He formed an air group with top fighter pilots, each flying a new Shiden-K