36th Annual Nimitz Symposium - 2023 | Richard Frank, Guest Speaker

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Long considered ancillary to the European War, the Asia Pacific War has taken on a new relevance in the 21st century. In 1937, when the conflict erupted, the Asia-Pacific, a region extending from the frozen Aleutian Islands to the sweltering jungles of Guadalcanal, from the high seas around Midway Island to the edge of the Himalaya Mountains on the Indian Subcontinent, held a billion people-nearly half the world population. Yet across this span, only Japan and Thailand were sovereign, independent states. This presentation addresses the myriad of ways the Asia Pacific War from 1937 to 1945 fundamentally shaped the path to independence of over thirty major and minor Asian and Pacific nation states. These include particularly China and India, today the two most populous nations in the world and leading economic, military, and political powers.
Speaker Bio:
Richard B. Frank is an internationally recognized leading authority on the Asia-Pacific War. He published his first book Guadalcanal in 1990. His second work, Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire, appeared in 1999 and has been called one of the six best books in English about World War II. Both Random House books won awards and became main selections of the History Book Club. In 2007, he completed MacArthur as part of the Palgrave Great Generals series. The first volume of his trilogy on the Asia Pacific War 1937-1945, Tower of Skulls, published in March 2020, was a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History 2021.
36th Annual Admiral Nimitz Symposium Sponsors and Donors:
Fischer & Wieser
Dian Graves Owen Foundation
Dr. Leon Bromberg Charitable Trust
Humanities Texas
Messina Hof
Hilmy Cellars
From the National Museum of the Pacific War, thank you to our guest presenters for
providing the content for this program. Any research, historical information, and opinions expressed are their own.
This is a recording from the National Museum of the Pacific War. Copyright 2023.
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19 дек 2023

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@paulfarace9595 3 месяца назад

Mr. Frank is a national resource for the history of the Pacific war!

@cheesenoodles8316 5 месяцев назад

Sahib Slim, a great general

@gagamba9198 6 месяцев назад

_'Long considered ancillary to the European War'_ I've never heard this claim in my life, but I'm not a citizen of a country that was occupied by the Germans. Who was making this claim? I surmise it may have been true for the Norwegians, Belgians, Poles, Russians, etc. But the Burmese and Cambodians probably weren't getting too worked up over the plight of Luxembourg and Czechoslovakia. Certainly the Australians were concerned enough that they redeployed their army back home. Australians absolutely vital in PNG campaign as well as the development of skip bombing against Japanese ships, making useless level bombers useful. In Java rice production had attained self sufficiency recently under Dutch rule. Upon occupation Japan decided to shift rice production to the short grain Japonica type favoured in Japan (mouth feel and taste differ enough to Japanese that they wouldn't eat other varieties). Rice production fell 35%. Why? Japonica is much more labour intensive than local types. Philippine independence had been agreed to in 1935. (In 1912 it had been agreed to occur in 8 years but Filipino nationalists later asked for delay due to fears over Japanese expansionism - time not important, capability is.) 10-year transition period to write constitution, hold national elections, build military (MacArthur resigns from US Army to command Philippine Army), create national language, etc. PNG gains independence in 1975 East Timor in 2002. Hyderabad loses independence in 1948. Don't know whether independence is the right word for Singapore in 1965 because it was expelled from the Malaysian Federation. It really wasn't a choice, more a condition they were thrown into.

@porksterbob 5 месяцев назад

How many people know about the Battle of the Bulge vs. Operation Ichigo? The European war is the main story for Europeans and the Americans. The Holocaust is the main atrocity. The war with Japan across the Pacific is the B story for Americans. The various atrocities by Japan against Asians are only in the public consciousness in those countries.