Operation Vengeance: Propaganda, Broken Codes, and the Assassination of Admiral Yamamoto
The lionization of Yamamoto by Japanese propaganda had put a huge target on his back. And now he was within range.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Operation Vengeance: A brilliant read on the Yamamoto ambush
With the long, bloody Guadalcanal campaign coming to a close in early 1943, the United States had turned the tide of the war in the Pacific. After Japan had brushed aside everything in its path in its heady, unstoppable advance across the Pacific in the war’s first months, everything had now begun to turn. The […]
Midway: Soaring battle scenes dominate epic WWII film
It first must be said that when I heard that Roland Emmerich was directing “Midway” I definitely had a sense that he was going to go “full-blown CGI” on the audience, much like he did with his sci-fi flick “Independence Day”. Or that he would play with the facts like he did in the Revolutionary […]
