Summary of Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan by Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard
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Summary of Killing the Rising Sun - J.J. Holt
Summary of Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan by Bill O’Reilly & Martin Dugard
By J.J. Holt
Copyright 2016 J.J.Holt
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Table of Contents
Killing the Rising Sun: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2
Killing the Rising Sun: Chapter 3 and Chapter 4
Killing the Rising Sun: Chapter 5 and Chapter 6
Killing the Rising Sun: Chapter 7 and Chapter 8
Killing the Rising Sun: Chapter 9 and Chapter 10
Killing the Rising Sun: Chapter 11 and Chapter 12
Killing the Rising Sun: Chapter 13 and Chapter 14
Killing the Rising Sun: Chapter 15 and Chapter 16
Killing the Rising Sun: Chapter 17 and Chapter 18
Killing the Rising Sun: Chapter 19 and Chapter 20
Killing the Rising Sun: Chapter 21 and Chapter 22
Killing the Rising Sun: Chapter 23 and Chapter 24
Killing the Rising Sun: Chapter 25 and Chapter 26
Killing the Rising Sun: Chapter 27 and Chapter 28
Killing the Rising Sun: Chapter 29 and Chapter 30
Summary of Postscript: Life After War
Killing the Rising Sun: Chapter 1 and Chapter 2
Bill O'Reilly's Killing the Rising Sun tells us the story of how The United States vanquished Japan during World War II by dropping the first two atomic bombs. What happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 is common knowledge to most but what many people don't know are the series of events that led up to that moment and drove the United States to use the most advanced bomb of the time. With the help of Martin Dugard, Bill O'Reilly narrates to us what pushed the United States to such drastic measures.
The Battle of Peleliu, Caroline Islands, September 15, 1944
War is a series of battles waged for tactical supremacy. The aim of the game is to destroy your enemy's defenses one by one until they have no choice but to surrender. Japan recognized the importance of striking first and striking hard, so when it became apparent that the United States might join the war on the side of the Allies, they decided to take the fight to them first by bombing the United States naval fleet at Pearl Harbor.
The United States responded by upping their offensive in the Pacific Islands because both they and Japan recognized the strategic importance of controlling the Pacific waters and skies. On September 15 1944, the United States mounted an offensive to take back Peleliu, a small island off the coast of the Philippines, back from Japanese control.
Corporal Lewis Bausell and the marines of the First Battalion were deployed to take back the island, knowing full well that the enemy they faced had a reputation for doing horrible things to their prisoners of war. They knew that they had no choice but to win back the island or die in the effort. The Japanese felt exactly the same way, because in their culture the shame of surrender is far worse than death. To die in battle is an honor. To surrender to the enemy would bring dishonor to themselves and to their families.
The Japanese tactics were based on this mentality of death before dishonor. In the face of an enormous US force, Japanese Commander Kunio Nakagawa even told his wife before leaving that he would never see her again. When the US army arrived on the beach of Peleliu, the Japanese fought them off with camouflaged machine-gun nests and mortar strikes but were unable to stop the allied forces from making it past the beach. Only the naive believed that the hard part was over for the Allied forces because even when they got to the jungle, they were faced with fighting a Japanese force that