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Who are they trying to recruit, the Villiage People??? I half expected that video to be to the song YMCA.
 
See, the reason that sailors use powdered soap in the showers aboard ship is because it takes longer to pick it up after they drop it. :eek:
 
I am currently doing a paper on japanese imperialism before and during the second world war....now does everybody understand why they didn't win?
 
Dundradal said:
I am currently doing a paper on japanese imperialism before and during the second world war....now does everybody understand why they didn't win?
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I would recommend you read "Why the allies won" by Richard Overy.

But to cut things short:

The US was too big for Japan from the start, and Yamamoto knew it. He told his commanders so and they ignored him.

Basically, (and Yamato knew it) the US had better resources and a much better industrial potential. The attack on Pearl Harbor was like waking a sleeping giant.

In the beginning of the war Japan had 8-9 Carriers and the US 10 or so, but only 4 of them in the Pacific. During the war Japan lunched 8-9 more carriers, while the US lunched.... 90 (!) (Yes, it's correct - NINTY AIRCRAFT CARRIERS!!!).
Also, while Japan was researching new planes and technologies and producing small amounts of them, the US was Mass producing planes that became better and better every year - in 1942 it was the Lightning and the Hellcat, in 44 the Corsair and Tigercat and in 45 the Bearcat. If in 1941 the Japanese Zero war the "King of the skies" By 42 the Hellcat was more then a match and by 44 the Corsair simply kicked the Zero out of the picture. Japan had BETTER fighters ("Frank", and more) but in very small numbers.

In the field of resources - by 1943, due to US oil embargo, a lot of Japanese warships had to be converted to coal propulsion - which drastically diminished their performance, and by 1944 the embargo got Japans fuel supply so low that Japanese warships had to sail in straight lines just to get were they needed, even when the tactical situation demanded otherwise.

In ground combat, the US troops were better traind and much better equipt (US had several types of heavy tanks, best of which was the Sherman, while the Japanese only had one light tank, the CHi-Ha, which was no match).

Also, the Japanese Honor codes hindered both their training and tactical thinking.

By 1944 the Japanese usage of suicide tactics kick in – it cost them all the good pilots and men they had left, as well as any remaining resources, which were put to produce suicide plane (Bekka) and other vehicles – effectively eliminating any chance they had to prolong the war.

The rest is history. :)
 
See? If that guy had joined the navy, he might not have spent the last 30 years lurking in backyards and department stores. Plus they would have taught him how to dance.
 
Another reason why the US won the war was by stangling the life out of Japan. The US Navy's submarines had won the war a long time before we dropped the bomb. Almost no commerce was reaching Japan by the end of 1944. And about the tanks, the Japanese had more than one type of light tank, they had a heavy called the Ho-Ro but it was produced in small numbers and deployed mainly in China. BTW I drive by a CHi-Ha every day, there are several left over from the war here in Saipan and there is an even smaller tank located on the north part of the island that was obviously blown apart by US artillery or AT fire. Another interesting note is that I go caving around this island and I have found all kinds of war relics from when the Japanese hid in the caves. I have a dish with Mt Fuji on it that is at least 65 years old and I found it at the bottom of a cave. Pretty cool. Also about that add the seems to me to be the gayest recruiting add I have ever seen. Talk about adding to the stereotype fire!
 
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