MHM Letters January 2022
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Military History Events, Lectures, and Exhibitions in Spring 2022
Exhibitions include 'Brothers in Arms' at the National Army Museum, and 'Nelson, Navy, Nation' at the National Maritime Museum.
Popular Resistance and the Fall of Imperial Japan
The Japanese surge between December 1941 and June 1942 – between, that is, Pearl Harbor and Midway – created a huge Far Eastern empire comparable with that of the Nazis in Europe. But at that point Japan’s capacity for expansion…
This week: Pearl Harbor
It was, according to a famous speech made by US President Franklin D Roosevelt the following day, 'a date which will live in infamy'. Shortly before 8am on Sunday 7 December 1941 – 80 years ago next month – 360 aircraft launched in two waves from carriers belonging to the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) made a surprise attack on the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.
Pearl Harbor: The Attack, 7 December 1941
David Porter analyses the Japanese surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet.
War on Film – Pearl Harbour
Taylor Downing surveys screen depictions of Pearl Harbor in a ‘War on Film’ special.
Facing the Mountain: the forgotten heroes of the Second World War
The most highly decorated combat unit in the history of the United States Army is the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, with its distinctive motto ‘Go for Broke’ – a reference to a term in gambling meaning that one stakes all…
Facing the Mountain: the forgotten heroes of the Second World War
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of 80 years ago not only brought the United States into a war, but provoked a wave of hostility to Japanese immigrants and their children across America. Daniel James Brown here explores the lives…