Summary of Barrett Tillman's When the Shooting Stopped

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The American Pacific Fleet was edgy as rumors circulated that Tokyo was about to surrender. The Japanese empire had been shrinking since 1942, and the elected government was irrelevant.
#2 The two-week Allied conference in Potsdam, Germany, which had begun on July 17, finished on August 2. The conference was primarily focused on the immediate postwar situation in Europe, but it also required Tokyo’s unconditional surrender.
#3 Truman’s British counterpart during the Potsdam Conference was Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill was a product of an aristocratic father and a promiscuous American society beauty mother. He had little experience in government, but he had killed in combat and retained an inner fierceness that sometimes belied his jowly exterior.
#4 Churchill was a war hero, but he was also a hard-working lawyer, financier, and politician. He had yearned for military service, but was refused at age 31. He survived the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, and was wounded fighting in Iraq at war’s end.

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• Histoire
• Japan
• History
• Asia

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 18 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822544291
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

The American Pacific Fleet was edgy as rumors circulated that Tokyo was about to surrender. The Japanese empire had been shrinking since 1942, and the elected government was irrelevant.

#2

The two-week Allied conference in Potsdam, Germany, which had begun on July 17, finished on August 2. The conference was primarily focused on the immediate postwar situation in Europe, but it also required Tokyo’s unconditional surrender.

#3

Truman’s British counterpart during the Potsdam Conference was Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill was a product of an aristocratic father and a promiscuous American society beauty mother. He had little experience in government, but he had killed in combat and retained an inner fierceness that sometimes belied his jowly exterior.

#4

Churchill was a war hero, but he was also a hard-working lawyer, financier, and politician. He had yearned for military service, but was refused at age 31. He survived the disastrous Gallipoli campaign, and was wounded fighting in Iraq at war’s end.

#5

In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Attlee agreed to a coalition government with Churchill’s Conservatives. In 1942, Attlee became deputy prime minister, and he earned admiration for reducing bureaucratic duplication and simplifying the mechanics of government administration.

#6

The ship was lost in the Philippines, and its crew was adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 600 miles west of Guam and 550 miles east of Leyte. They were exposed to searing sun and frigid nights, and more men died from injuries, dehydration, and hypothermia than from sharks.

#7

The sight and sound of an aircraft brought surging elation to survivors on August 2, as did the first rescue ship, the destroyer escort Cecil J. Doyle, which arrived on scene that night.

#8

The United States had invested enormous resources in two potentially war-winning weapon programs: the atom bomb and the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Together they amounted to a cost of approximately $5 billion, or more than $70 billion today.

#9

On the day of the atomic bomb test, Szilard wrote an open letter to his Los Alamos colleagues urging them to join him in protesting any use of nuclear weapons. He sent President Truman a letter questioning the morality of nuclear weapons, with 70 other signatures.

#10

The A-bomb decision process was extremely delicate, and top-secret information was not released to the public. However, the evidence of Tokyo’s intransigence was clear. atoms would inevitably be split.

#11

On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. It was a bright light that shone through the plane, then two shock waves overtook the plane, and almost 12 miles from the detonation, a surging, roiling purple-gray mass arose over the target.

#12

The Japanese government, like most authoritarian regimes, placed its own agenda above its population. However, it did provide assistance to the stricken city of Hiroshima, mainly from Kure Naval Base. Meanwhile, the Japanese team investigating whether an atom bomb had been detonated in Hiroshima concluded that it had been done by an atom bomb.

#13

The Japanese attempted to produce a jet aircraft in 1943, but they were unsuccessful. The plans and other technical specifications were exchanged with Germany in mid-1944, and the Japanese began work on a naval jet named Kikka.

#14

The test pilot assigned to evaluate the Kikka was Lieutenant Commander Takaoka Susumu. He logged a successful flight of less than 20 minutes, and never exceeded 170 knots. The plane overran the runway edge, ripping off the landing gear on a ditch near the bay.

#15

The United States Marine Corps’ final aerial tally was made by a night fighter pilot in the early morning dawn of the 8th. Second Lieutenant William E. Jennings was vectored onto a bogey about 40 miles from the island’s northeast tip. The controller put him within range of the Hellcat’s radar, where he closed to firing distance.

#16

On the night of the 9th, Major Charles Sweeney flew Captain Fred Bock’s bomber called Bockscar. However, mechanics discovered that the fuel system on board Bockscar trapped 600 gallons of unusable gasoline, a potential deficit of 3,600 pounds.

#17

The undercast was thinner at Nagasaki, allowing Captain Kermit Beahan to bomb the city visually. He released the plutonium-fueled Fat Man at 11:00 a. m. The explosion 1,600 feet above ground level destroyed the Mitsubishi Steel and Arms Works.

#18

The death toll from the two atomic bombs remains speculative. Hiroshima fatalities are widely estimated at 90,000 to 120,000; Nagasaki at 60,000 to 80,000, with 70 percent of the industrial area destroyed.

#19

The war continued at sea, and the largest loss of the Japanese was on August 7, when the 9,500-ton army landing craft depot ship Kibitsu Maru was sunk by an air-dropped mine between Kobe and Yokohama.

#20

The same day as the A-bomb on Hiroshima, a Japanese Army light bomber caught the submarine USS Bullhead on the surface in the Java Sea. The single-engine Mitsubishi claimed hits with two depth charges, and the enemy fliers circled for about ten minutes, noting the sea roiled with spurting bubbles and fuel oil.

#21

On the afternoon of the 9th, USS Essex launched a strike against Ominatu Naval Base, targeting shipping in Montsu Bay. Lieutenant Vernon T. Coumbe attacked a transport, dropping his 500-pounder, and bent the throttle seaward.